I'm curious to see how autotune can do on this. With RE1 we've seen a lot of new users to dRonin and some more people with high performance builds experiencing AT issues. Hard to say for sure what's causing them but it's starting to look like most of them are likely vibration related due to AT using leveling mode and the vibrations messing with the accells even if they gyros are ok. This is exacerbated by hard mounted FC's, but is especially bad on frames where the FC mounting bolts double as arm mounting bolts which can transfer more vibration. Last night icee hacked up a version of AT that can run in rate mode but was convinced it would be unusable - this morning one brave tester gave it a go and found it was actually usable. That's only a first step towards solving the issue, but gave a lot of insight as to some approaches for making AT more robust.
Any major AT changes won't reach release for awhile yet. Slight possibility they could make it into the release after the upcoming one, but that's purely speculation on my part. It could just as easily be a release after that, or the experiments could turn sour and it never makes it out of testing.
Next major release is getting close, may be a bit late since there are still some blockers in the queue but there's a lot of cool new stuff for the next release - like expoM - so I'm excited about it making it out of development
Cranaial - I think you'll love expoM. Makes it so much easier to get a nice expo curve with a longer flatter center section for smooth center stick control but still have insane rates at full stick for real fun
I absolutely had trouble with AT on this build in the beginning with the Brain. The problem was vibration and got intensely worse as the C clips on my motors started falling off mid-flight. Root cause was bad Cobra 1806 motors.
As your copter wears and if your props get bent or scraped, you can see the vibration build in the OSD. The horizon starts to tilt while the copter is still. When that happens, it's time to clean the motors out or replace the props.
The wiring diagram for the RE1 doesn't match dRonin. The motors are all wonky. I need to re-map the motors and directions before I heat shrink ESCs and zip tie everything up for a maiden. I also did a really poor job soldering the ESC signal and ground wires to the RE1 as my iron is acting up. It looks like hell and will until I can fix or replace this iron.
Still, I should get a chance to try and am charging 4S lipos now.