DJI Ground Station User Manual

Ground Station Wireless Data-link User Manual

V 3.02

2014.11 Revision

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Disclaimer

Thank you for purchasing product(s) in DJI Innovations. Please strictly follow these steps to install all the software and hardware products, and make sure your Ground Station and Wireless Data-link work perfectly. Please use the wireless data-link in accordance with the provisions of the local radio control. DJI Innovations assumes no liability for damage(s) or injured incurred directly or indirectly from the use of this product. As DJI Innovations has no control over use, setup, final assembly, modification (including use of non-specified

DJI parts i.e. motors, ESCs, propellers, etc.) or misuse, no liability shall be assumed nor accepted for any resulting damage or injury. By the act of use, setup or assembly, the user accepts all resulting liability. DJI Innovations assumes no liability for damage(s) or injured incurred directly or indirectly from the use of this product.

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Profile

Please read this instruction thoroughly for proper operation of your new DJI Ground Station and Wireless Data-link. Full featured DJI Ground Station enables 3-D Map Way Points Editing, Flight Path Planning, Real-time Flight State Feedback and Auto Takeoff and Landing. This product is specially designed for the purpose of aircraft operation, BVR (Beyond Visual Range) flying in applications such as surveillance, aerial photography, etc. Working with DJI flight control system, DJI Ground Station not only ensures stable performance and safety of the aircraft, easy operation for the pilot, but also allows the aircraft to fly along the flight path set before or modified during the flight mission in the Ground Station software autonomously. This manual covers both Single Waypoint and Ground Station products. Read this manual according to your product package. E.g., if you have ACE Single Waypoint, then you do not need to read section 4.4. Please refer to DJI flight control system manual for semi-auto takeoff and landing.

Production

ACE

WKM

A2

NAZA-M/

NAZA-M V2

Phantom 2

Product packages

View

Mode

Joystick

/Keyboard Mode

Single

Waypoint

Ground

Station

Ground

Station

Ground

Station

Ground Station

Ground

Station

3D MapDisplay

      



Real-time Flight Monitoring

      



Flight Simulation

      

One Key Takeoff

  



Joystick / Keyboard Mode

      

One Key Go Home

    



Click Go Mode

    



Waypoints Editing

200

Waypoints

50 Waypoints

50

Waypoints

16 Waypoints

Automatic Takeoff & Landing

    

F Channel Controller

  



General Purpose Servo Action

  

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Six Route Templates

    

Photogrammetry Tool

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Wireless Data-link Ground End ×1

It connects to your computer. Computer sends commands and receives flight data through it.

Wireless Data-link Air End 900MHz ×1 or 2.4GHz ×1

It connects to DJI autopilot system. Flight control system sends

flight data and receives commands from computer by it.

USB Cable ×1

For connection between wireless data-link ground end and computer.

4-Pin Cable ×1

For connection between wireless data-link air end and flight control system.

Warranty Card ×1

It recommends the necessary conditions for using this system and related safety issues. Please fill out the customer & information card and return to DJI Innovations to register your product warranty.

In Box

Contents

Disclaimer ................................................................................................................................................ - 2 -

Profile ....................................................................................................................................................... - 2 -

In Box ....................................................................................................................................................... - 4 -

Contents................................................................................................................................................... - 5 -

Matters Need Attention ............................................................................................................................. - 6 -

Connection ............................................................................................................................................... - 7 -

Ground Station Software .......................................................................................................................... - 8 -

Install Software .................................................................................................................................... - 8 -

Start Software .......................................................................................................................................... - 9 -

Application ............................................................................................................................................... - 9 -

Control Mode Switch ......................................................................................................................... - 10 -

GUI ........................................................................................................................................................ - 11 -

1 View Mode .......................................................................................................................................... - 14 -

1.1 View Mode Procedures ........................................................................................................... - 14 -

1.2 System Setting ................................ ................................................................ ....................... - 14 -

2 Joystick/Keyboard Mode ................................................................................................................. - 18 -

2.1 Simulator ................................................................................................................................ - 18 -

2.2 One Key Takeoff .................................................................................................................... - 19 -

2.3 Joystick and Keyboard Mode .................................................................................................. - 20 -

3 Click Go Mode ................................................................................................................................ - 22 -

4 Waypoint(Single Waypoint User Skip This) ..................................................................................... - 24 -

4.1 Waypoint Mode ...................................................................................................................... - 24 -

(I) Flight Mission Setting ............................................................................................................... - 27 -

(II) Upload Flight Mission .............................................................................................................. - 31 -

(III) Take off Aircraft ...................................................................................................................... - 31 -

(IV) Switch to Autopilot Mode ....................................................................................................... - 31 -

(V) GO!! ....................................................................................................................................... - 32 -

4.2 Auto Takeoff and Landing ....................................................................................................... - 33 -

4.3 F Channel Controller .............................................................................................................. - 34 -

4.4 General Purpose Servo Action (GP-Servo Action) .................................................................. - 36 -

4.5 Six Pre-Programmed Route Templates ................................................................................... - 39 -

4.6 Photogrammetry Tool ............................................................................................................. - 40 -

Appendix ................................................................................................................................................ - 42 -

List of Ground Station Shortcut Keys ................................................................................................. - 42 -

Troubleshooting ................................................................................................................................ - 43 -

Data-link LED Introduction ................................................................................................................. - 46 -

Wireless Data-link Specification ......................................................................................................... - 47 -

Flight Limit of Special Areas .............................................................................................................. - 48 -

Matters Need Attention

1. The ability of penetrating of radio signal from 2.4GHz wireless data-link is weak;

please make sure the antenna of it is always visible to the ground end during the flight. Human body, trees, buildings or hills will stop the communication between air end and ground end.

2. You’d better put the ground end at high place. This can guarantee a good

communication range.

3. Make sure the antenna head of air end is erect down, and the antenna head of ground

end is erect up. Make sure there is no obstacle between antennas; otherwise the communication range will be reduced.

4. Ground end Link-Alarm red light on is distance alarm, red light off is safe. When it is on,

you’d better return your aircraft.

5. When ground end Link-Alarm green light is off, this indicates the communication

between ground end and air end is off, whatever the state of red light.

6. Make sure the driver is installed correctly.

7. Please choose the right com port.

8. Check out the power supply of wireless data-links before use.

9. Please close the DJI assistant software before open the ground station. Otherwise

there will be port conflict.

10. Make sure the distance between 2.4GHz ground end and air end is over 1.5m; the

distance between 900MHz ground end and air end is over 5m.

11. Use the right cable for connection.

12. High voltage servos & FBL systems can drain the flight battery fast. Please make sure

your flight pack is sufficient for the flight time intended.

13. About control modes (Manual, Atti., GPS Atti., GPS Cruise), please refer to ACE

Control Modes in ACE Waypoint User Manual and Control Modes in A2/WKM/ NAZA-M/NAZA-M V2/ Phantom 2 User Manual.

14. Autopilot Mode (auto mode) means: GPS Atti. or GPS Cruise Mode in ACE; GPS Atti.

Mode in A2/WKM/ NAZA-M/NAZA-M V2; Ready to fly in Phantom 2.

If you have any problem you cannot solve during installation and usage, please contact our customer service.

Connection

Antenna

Head

Ground End

· You should have a DJI Ground Station installed laptop.

· Use the USB Cable supplied by us to connect the wireless data-

link ground end to you laptop. One end of the USB cable has two heads, make sure the communication interface is plugged into your laptop. If the power supply is insufficient using one USB port, then plug the power interface Into the laptop also.

Air End

· 900MHz wireless data-link air end has two CAN ports. When you use it with ACE flight control system and low voltage servo, you should connect one CAN port to spare CAN port on autopilot system, and connect another one to a battery whose output voltage is in the range of wireless data-link air end working voltage.

· 2.4GHz wireless data-link air end has only one CAN port.

· Usually connecting one CAN port on air end to any spare CAN port on DJI flight control

system is enough. Note that A2 uses should use CAN2 port.

· WKM user should use it with PMU.

· High voltage servos & FBL systems can drain the flight battery fast. Please make sure your

flight pack is sufficient for the flight time intended.

· Make sure the antenna head of Wireless data-link air end is erect down, then you can have the largest range.

Any spare CAN

port on DJI flight

control system

Battery

ACE flight control system, low voltage

servo and 900M data-link connection

Normal connection with

flight control system

Any spare CAN

port on DJI flight

control system

Any spare CAN

port on DJI flight

control system

Communication Interface

Power Interface

Ground Station

Ground Station Software

1. Google Earth Plugin;

2. Ground Station software (Install the .Net Framework 3.5 first, if installation is unsuccessful.);

3. Driver Installer.

Install Software

 Operating system requirement: Windows XP(Needs to install sp2 patch), Vista, Windows 7,Windows 8

(32-bits, 64-bits, basic version needs to install sp3 patch);

 Visit the official DJI website to download and install the following software:

Start Software

Start Window

(1)Start the Application of GS

 Network Detection, if the Network connection fails, it will go offline mode automatically.

 You also can go into offline mode by clicking the OFFLINE MODE button.

(2)Connect to Main Controller

 Click Connect button on the upper right corner to connect to DJI autopilot main controller.  If errors are showed, it means there may be some problem on connection, please check.

Application

HOVERING MODE

AUTOMATIC GO HOME

Tx Signal Lost time > 10s

Tx Switch

Mission Send

&

Executed

1st Line Protection

With Joystick active of use

Keyboard control

R/C MAN

If Tx Signal

Resume

Joystick signal Lost

Joystick signal Resume

Tx Signal Lost

Tx Signal Resume

Tx Signal Lost

Tx Signal Resume

Tx Signal

Lost

Tx Signal

Resume

2rd Line Protection

Atti. Mode

Tx Switch

Manual Mode

Waypoint

Mode

Resume the

mission

Pause the

mission

Joystick

Mode

GPS Cruise Mode

Keyboard

Mode

Click Go

Mode

Choose

Click Go

Mode

Click “GO”

Control Mode Switch

GUI

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GUI Instruction

1. Joystick:

 Stick: Choose your input equipment.

 Choose Calibration: Joystick calibration.

 Channel Mapping: Joystick channel mapping.

2. ToolBox:

 Click Go Mode: A real-time single waypoint function.

 F_ChannelController: Customize F channels function of Main Controller.

 Relative Coordinates Editor: Add a new waypoint relative to current waypoint.

 Route Template: Route library.

 Action Config: General purpose servo action configuration.

 Photogrammetry Tool: Photogrammetry toolbox.

3. Sys_setOptions:

 Basic Setting:

 Sound: Turn on or off the sound.

 Instrument Board Style: Choose different style of the Instrument Board.

 Action Setting: Action number display interval.

 Pause Mode Control Interval: Frequency of data packages sent to MC.

 Target Line: Line between aircraft and current target.

 Data Link Setting:

 The waypoint number of one package.

 Upload one package.

 Retry one package timeout.

 NetWork Setting:

 GS VPN: VPN switch.

ON: If ON is selected, the VPN auto connnect when you launch the GS. OFF: If OFF is selected, the VPN not auto connect when you launch the GS.

Sys_setAltitude offset: Set up the altitude offset.

 Height: Height mode.  Elevation: Elevation mode.

Sys_set Data Record Folder: Include both Log and Mission Folders, for saving log files and flight

route files.

4. Language(语言): Click to change language, English or Chinese.

 中文.

 English.

5. Help:

 Check for Update: Update software here.

 About: Check your DJI Ground Station version here.

6. Enter location: Go to the location of your input.

7. Fly Trace: Click to show the trace of aircraft.

8. PathExtrude: Click if you want to see flight Path Extrude during mission editing.

9. Map Details: Click to see map details.

10. Instrument Board: Click if you want to display instrument board.

11. Editor: Click if you want to display mission editor.

12. Continue: If you switch into autopilot mode from waypoint mode, click Pause then click Continue,

the aircraft will continue the remaining (Unfinished) mission.

13. Pause: Mission pause.

14. Serial port selection.

15. Connect: Click to connect to main controller.

16. Aircraft: Click to find aircraft location.

17. Real-time coordinates of aircraft, you can copy the data.

18. One Key Takeoff: Click to take off the aircraft.

19. Home Point: Find your home location.

20. Real-time coordinates of home location, you can copy the data.

21. Set Home Point: Change your home point.

22. Go Home: Click to go home.

23. To show Real mode or Simulation mode.

24. Signal strength: Shows the connection state between controller and ground station.

25. GPS: Real-time GPS signal quality.

26. ATTI: Real-time attitude quality.

27. MODE: Real-time control mode.

28. Other state parameters: The flight control system decides.

 WKM/A2/NAZA-M/NAZA-M V2/Phantom 2:

 MotorVoltage: Battery voltage.

 ACE:

 ServoVoltage: Servo output voltage.  Pitch%: Real-time pitch percentage.  Throttle%: Real-time throttle percentage.

29. Download and upload progress bar.

30. Cancel: Cancel button.

Fig①A ACE

1 View Mode

1. Check Signal Strength: shows no communication between GS and MC, please check

Troubleshooting in Appendix. is constructed, can go to next step.

2. Aircraft: When GPS signal is good enough, click Aircraft will show LATI, LONGI and ALTI of aircraft,

then the aircraft logo will be showed on the map; if the aircraft logo can’t be found, please double click

Aircraft.

3. AltitudeOffSet: Click AltitudeOffSet from Sys_set, you can just use the value recommended, and click OK. Read the paragraph below to get more details.

4. Switch Height or Elevation Mode: Height mode shows relative height, and the 0 meter is the aircraft height when you choose Height mode, above 0 is positive and below 0 is negative. Elevation mode shows height above sea level, figure is showed in Fig②

5. Home Point: Home point can be found only when GPS signal is good enough. If WKM/A2/ NAZA-M/NAZA-M V2/Phantom 2, Home Point is 20 meters above the aircraft position where user

pushes the throttle stick first time; while ACE is 30 meters.

6. View Fly Trace, Instrument Board and State Information: For displaying flight track and aircraft state. Contents are decided by flight control system. Fig①A will be displayed if you are using ACE; Fig①B will be displayed if WKM/A2/NAZA-M/NAZA-M V2/Phantom 2. Instrument Board is showed in Fig③.

(1)Options

Fig③

Compass

Real-time

Vertical speed

Real-time

Altitude

Real-time

Ground speed

Real-time

Attitude

Fig①B WKM/A2/NAZA-M/NAZA-M V2/Phantom 2

Fig②

1.1 View Mode Procedures

1.2 System Setting

System Setting includes Options Setting, Altitude Offset Setting and Data Record Folder.

Tips:

Click DEFAULT to retrieve default parameters.

The Options setting includes both Basic Setting and Data Link Setting.

Basic Setting

 Sound: If switch on, there will be alarm sound when the radio signal is bad.

 Instrument Board Style: Choose different instrument board style.

 Action Setting: Set action number display mode. For example, 3 means that a mark will be

displayed every three action intervals.

 Pause Mode Control Interval: Time interval of sending commands to the MC when use joystick or

keyboard in pause mode, the smaller interval, the more fine control.

 Target Line: Display a line between aircraft and current target when switch on.

 UI Float Tips Show: If selected, the corresponding item(s) will real-time display in the main form.

Voltage of ACE is Servo Voltage while WKM is Motor Voltage.

Data Link Setting

Setting parameters for the communication between MC and GS. Usually just keep DEFAULT parameters.

 The waypoint number of one package

 Upload one package retry times

 Retry one package timeout

UI Float Tips with

WKM/A2/NAZA-M/NAZ

A-M V2/Phantom 2 UI Float Tips with ACE

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