UAV failsafe

Description

Failsafe Type

Radio Failsafe.

Battery Failsafe.

GPS Failsafe .

Ground Control
Station (GCS)
Failsafe.

Fence failsafe.

Radio Failsafe is a most important failsafe type

because If we don't use it, our vehicle will soon
or late flyaway or drop from the sky during
radio loss, except if we did set RTL or LAND
mode.

The battery failsafe can be set-up to

automatically trigger an RTL or LAND when
the vehicle battery voltage or estimated
remaining power has crossed a configurable
threshold.

GPS Systems can occasionally drop the signal or

provide significantly inaccurate position
information (aka glitches). While errors are
more likely in conditions where the GPS signal
can bounce off multiple paths before reaching
the receiver (multipathing), errors can
occasionally occur even with clear sky.

A ground control station (GCS) provides the

facilities for human control of unmanned
vehicles in the air so there are more messages
are exchange between the vehicle and GCS via
telemetry. Sometimes the connection between
them is lost which will affect the control of the
vehicle , so using this type of failsafe is very
efficient. If the failsafe clears (contact with the
ground station is restored) the vehicle will
remain in its current flight mode.
It is a simple tin can shaped fence centered on
home that will attempt to stop vehicle from
flying too far away by initiating an RTL. The
maximum circular distance and altitude and the
vehicle behavior when the fence is reached can
be configured using ground control station.

This sheet is prepared by the project team .

Sana'a October 2015

When the failsafe will trigger

and What will happen
The pilot turns off the RC
transmitter .
The vehicle travels outside of
RC range (usually at around
500m ~ 700m).
The receiver loses power
(unlikely) . It will switch into
RTL or LAND.
voltage drops below 10.5
volts (configurable) for more
than 10 seconds.
Remaining capacity falls
below the configurable
Reserved MAH. It will switch
into RTL or LAND
A GPS failsafe event will occur
if GPS 3D lock or the position
Glitches for at least 5
seconds while vehicle is in a
mode that requires the GPS
(RTL, Auto, Loiter, Circle,
Position, or Guided ) .The GPS
failsafe response can be set to
Land or switch to AltHold
mode.
RTL Mode If the GPS lock
and are more than 2 meters
from your home position.
LAND Mode if you have
no GPS lock or are within 2
meters of home.
Continue with the mission
if you are in AUTO mode and
have set the GCS Failsafe.

If the vehicle strays outside

these borders it will switch into
RTL or LAND.

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