Voltage reading from firmware on crazyflie

Discussions about all things Bitcraze
Post Reply
Abanoub.G
Beginner
Posts: 12
Joined: Mon Jan 29, 2018 3:46 pm

Voltage reading from firmware on crazyflie

Post by Abanoub.G »

Hi,
I am trying to get the voltage being applied to the motors from the firmware, when different thrust values are applied. Unfortunelty, have got no clue how to do that. Anyone knows any libraries that are used to do this or anything that could help get the voltage being supplied to the motors from python??


Regards
AG
tobias
Bitcraze
Posts: 2339
Joined: Mon Jan 28, 2013 7:17 pm
Location: Sweden

Re: Voltage reading from firmware on crazyflie

Post by tobias »

Simplifying it, 50% PWM would yield 50% battery voltage applied. So by reading the battery voltage you would get a rough estimate of this.
arnaud
Bitcraze
Posts: 2538
Joined: Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:36 pm

Re: Voltage reading from firmware on crazyflie

Post by arnaud »

To precise the Tobias answer: there is no physical way to measure the voltage applied on the motor of the Crazyflie. Though it can be estimated with the battery voltage and the PWM.
Post Reply