Homebuilt ROVs Forum

I have a FUTABA 10C, controller which has a lot of capabilities, but I'm not so sure I know how to do this? Has anyone tried to create a tabk style control with a RC controller?

The vertical and horizontal thrusters, set to the left stick are no problem. The primary movement of the ROV comes from the right stick of the controller by controlling the both main thruster (one right and lone left). I want to create a Tank drive system off of the right control stick. Push the stick forward and get thrust on both R & L thrusters add R/L input would cause a decrease one one of the thruster causing the ROV to turn. The trick will be to have the AUX CH7 also follow the Elevator CH2 and then create MIX from CH1 to decrease power to make it turn. Anyone tried this?


FUTABA 10CAG
Left Stick: Vertiical Thruster and Bow Thruster (this should be no problem)
Right Stick: Forward on the stick should be both CH2 and CH 7, R/L should be mix that causes a reduction to CH2 and CH7

RX Channel set up:
Channel 1- Aileron (Used for mixing CH2 and CH7)
Channel 2- Elevator (ESC R Thruster)
Channel 3- Throttle (ESC to Vertical Thruster)
Channel 4- Rudder (ESC to Horz. Thruster)
Channel 5-
Channel 6-
Channel 7- Elevator (ESC L Thruster)
Channel 8-
Channel 9-
Channel 10-

This seems simple but that usually means it's a royal pain in the neck!

Wahoo!

IMX1 will do the job and it's a lot easier than creating the mixing myself. It does all the work for you for only $40. It takes the For/Aft & R/L inputs and send it out proportionally to two both R & L ESC. And fom what I'm guessing you don't have to disable one of the BEC's on the ESC's. This should work perfectly

http://www.robotmarketplace.com/products/RL-IMX1.html

use the built in vtail mix.

Actually I found that V-Tail mix doesn't for me, but I was able to use the Elevon Mixing from a flying wing profile that combines Elevator and Aileron. Problem solved.

Thanks