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HDMI output! 1080P HD digital transmission, new animation interface, DVR recording!
The ARKBIRD 3.0 Autopilot is based on a new architecture for HD video transmitter. it can control
balance, return to home, waypoint and other modes with high precision.
The super stabilizing system and Plug-and-Play design make you worry-free and effortless, and
instantly enjoy the beauty of FPV.
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Arkbird 3.0 Set
1. HD video transmitter resolution: 1920x1080p 30fps; 1280x720p 60fps; 1296x972p 42fps; 1640x922p
40fps; ultra-low latency (typical 100ms, maximum 190ms)
2. Ultra-light weight (flight control + video transmitter + camera no more than 100g), air distance
above 15km(TX is 650mW);
3. The receiver is equipped with DVR function, ground recording (.mp4 format); with ground station
data recording, the flight track can be played back by computer.
4. HDMI output to the display, CSI or HDMI input (requires adapter module), supports mainstream
cameras such as Gopro;
5. Easy adjustment, move the remote stick up and down to set every parameter, OSD interface style,
including the following:
6. 256-color adjustable OSD interface; adjustable transparency;
7. Eight kinds of 3D three-dimensional aircraft (large, medium and small three sizes), you can make
your favorite 3D aircraft style
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  • Page 1 Arkbird HDMI output! 1080P HD digital transmission, new animation interface, DVR recording! The ARKBIRD 3.0 Autopilot is based on a new architecture for HD video transmitter. it can control balance, return to home, waypoint and other modes with high precision.
  • Page 2 (differential steering), butterfly brake mixing (1247 channel mixing) 12. Support Arkbird433 ten-channel + RSSI single wire transmission. Arkbird 3.0 Main Functions 1. Function all in one broad, on broad IMU (Inertial measurement unit), OSD (On Screen Display), barometer Attitude sensor, 12V-5V regulation chip, “ESC + voltage regulation”...
  • Page 3 Arkbird Semi-Balance Mode When the CH1 and CH2 of rocker is less than 50%, the plane is in Balance Mode. When the rocker is more than 50%, the plane is in Gyro Mode. (This function allows you making a turn with a large dip angle, even vertical rise and roll or other actions.
  • Page 4 Working Principle & Suggested Setting Value The working principle of the ARKBIRD Nano autopilot is: When you input 0-100% rudder quantity, it will be analyzed to lock 0-45 degree angle. Therefore, increasing the rudder angle of the remote control will only increase the maximum inclination angle of the rocker.
  • Page 5 Arkbird recommends control values of 100, 100, 120, Skyhunter control values of 100, 100, 130; 1.4 m Surfers, Sirius, 2 m surfers MTD increased to 100, 100, 140 or even 100, 100, 170 ) Attention： When the aircraft reaches to the target angle under control of the autopilot, we cannot ensure the plane won’t loss speed at high angle of attack flight.

  • Page 6: Table Of Contents

    Arkbird CONTENTS 1. Wirings 2. Power Supply Mode 3. 5V Dual Power Supply 4. Installation 5. Switch Modes through CH5 and CH6 6. GPS&Save Home Position 7. Manual Mode 8. GPS and Return to Home Instruction 9. Fail-Safe to RTH mode 10.

  • Page 7: Wirings

    Ground, Power and Signal wire. The yellow port is high pressure port(for power supply, video power voltage, camera and video transmitter, please DON’T connect it to 5V power equipment ). Mixed control output Arkbird 3.0 autopilot provides various intelligent mixed control Bi-motor Butterfly Ordinary...
  • Page 8 Arkbird 3 Bi-motor mixed control, when throttle is less than 25%, there is no differential steering, when over 25%, throttle outputs differential steering. 4 You can plug the airspeed sensor into paralleling "RX" port if using GCS function. 5 CH5 and CH6 default output are gimbal roll and gimbal pitch, it can be set up direction, value, or it can be output through CH7, CH8, CH9 and CH10 directly.
  • Page 9 2. It is recommended to place the digital video transmitter outside the fuselage to improve the heat dissipation effect; if it is placed outside the fuselage, the fan can be removed. 3. PPM port, support Arkbird 433 receiver to realize single-line transmission with 10 channels of rudder and signal strength RSSI. (Plug in automatic recognition) 4.
  • Page 10 Arkbird autonomous flight modes such as return home, waypoint, etc., if any value of the airspeed or ground speed is less than the setting "Safe Speed", it will press Increase the throttle proportionally. -10-...

  • Page 11: Power Supply Mode

    Arkbird Power Supply Mode Note that there is a 5V port under 12V. Do not connect high voltage to 5V to avoid damage! 3S Battery Shared Power Supply (Factory Default) The extra line is 5V The 3P wire definition: Black-Ground wire, Red-Power, White-Signal. (Left picture) The latest model, add "extra line - 5V output", please connect to the 5V position of RX to increase...

  • Page 12: 5V Dual Power Supply

    3P line. Don't connect it wrongly (800mah-1400mah is recommended). (You can also use NANO and 3.0 dedicated 12V Mini stabilized current meter. The power and video parts share a battery. Note that it is not common with LITE and 2.0 stabilized current meters) The new version of the current meter has a separate 5V wire, please connect it to the middle 5V position of the TX, RX or AR interface.
  • Page 13 Arkbird If OSD function is not used, please plug in OSD 12V power as well to prevent a lack of power supply for 5V ESC. -13-...

  • Page 14: Installation

    Arkbird Installation: The pins of GPS and 12V ports shall stay forward (toward flying direction); the side with Arkbird LOGO shall upward vertical toward right wing. (Default is level installation) Keep GPS antenna upward placed and away from interference sources such as VideoTX and camera.
  • Page 15 Arkbird Vertical Installation The arrow mark points to the direction of the nose, with the blue silkscreen facing the right wing. (The schematic diagram is as follows) -15-...

  • Page 16: Switch Modes Through Ch5 And Ch6

    Arkbird Switch Modes through CH5 and CH6 Use the remote control CH5, CH6 channel to switch mode: After installing the aircraft, first test the input and output of the rudder, and use the 5 and 6 channels of the remote control to switch the flight mode.

  • Page 17: Gps&Save Home Position

    Arkbird GPS & Save Home Position After power on, Arkbird will start to search GPS satellite and save the first valid position as Home. During searching, the elevator will be up and any manipulation of radio stick is invalid. If need to skip the searching, please push CH6 more than 75% and push CH1 to left or right side for 0.5 second.
  • Page 18 3. There is an AAT modulation module inside the Arkbird OSD, which superimposes GPS information on the video signal and downloads it through the image transmission video. With the Arkbird AAT ground terminal, the GPS signal can be directly identified and tracked; (AAT ground terminal should be yellow light double flashing, positioning The rear yellow light flashes quickly.
  • Page 19 Arkbird 9. The horizon position should be consistent with the actual horizon. If not, please recalibrate the sensor. -19-...
  • Page 20 Arkbird Balance Mode 1. First switch to "manual mode", set the rudder angle on the remote control to 100%, fine-tune it back to center, and set the amount of forward and reverse rudder manually controlled on the remote control. 2. Then switch to "Balance Mode", if the midpoint is correctly calibrated, the plane should be placed horizontally, the rudder surface should be basically at the midpoint, otherwise please recalibrate the midpoint.

  • Page 21: Gps And Return To Home Instruction

    Arkbird 6. Rudder detection: Shake the aircraft in the direction of the rudder, turn the nose to the right, and automatically give a control amount on the rudder to make the aircraft turn left. When the nose turns to the left, a control quantity for turning the aircraft to the right should be automatically given on the rudder.
  • Page 22 Arkbird -22-...

  • Page 23: Osd And Menu

    Arkbird OSD and Menu CH5 switches to Manual Mode(<50%), throttle to 0%, and push CH1 to left or right side for 6 seconds, it will enter into main menu. Exit the main menu if CH5 switches to auto mode(>50%). Moving stick up and down to change the value, pushing to right side to select, and...
  • Page 24 Arkbird Set CTL Parameters Roll Ctl Roll Control(%)(equivalent to travel range on radio, Please adjust the travel range on OSD, do not adjust through radio) Pitch Ctl Pitch Control (%) Yaw Ctl Yaw Control (%) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Neutral Check Neutral Point Check: Neutral point alignment needed under first installation, not used for weeks, or temperature variation is more than 10 degrees.
  • Page 25 Arkbird changes. Lock Dir/Heig: Lock direction and height (Cruise flight): Under balance mode, when CH3>20% CH1 and CH2 stick back to center, height and direction will be locked and keep straight &constant-height flight. Aileron and elevator can also be controlled through CH1 and CH2.
  • Page 26 Arkbird Set OSD Parameters LANGUDGE Chinese/English Page switching SHOW LAT-LON Show longitude and altitude AD CALIBRAT Battery voltage calibration OSD PATTERN OSD interface selection - DEFAULT: Normal interface - FIGHTER: HUD interface Default 3D / Fighter 3D ：The airplane attitudes will be shown as 3D animation.
  • Page 27 Arkbird Flight Parameters And Delta Wing Mix Control Roll Roll Reverse Pitch Pitch Reverse Yaw Reverse More ways of mixed control include delta wing and V-tail wing, and Bi-motor plane, Bi-motor flying wing and butterfly brake (mixed control of 1247channel).
  • Page 28 Arkbird the flap wings move in the opposite direction, adjust the value across 50%; Flap zero Flapzero (OSD shows F, 0% output flap quantity). When doing the commissioning, the rudder will output Flapzero value. Correct Flapzero value can be set according to the rudder position; If the flap wings move in the opposite direction, adjust the value across 50%;...
  • Page 29 Arkbird Press the elevator joystick downwards, the two rudder surfaces of the left wing are lifted, and the two rudder surfaces of the right wing are also lifted; Push the rudder joystick to the left, lift the outer rudder surface of the left wing, press...
  • Page 30 Arkbird Switching to CH5 > 50% and 30 %< CH6< 70%, within rectangle area and above safe height it is Balance Mode, otherwise it switches to RTH mode. Fence Mode Fence Mode , "ON" or "OFF" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ North Dist North Distance(m)
  • Page 31 Arkbird Set four way points (WP1~WP4), allow to turn on/off separately. Set Custom Mode as Way Point Mode (CH5 > 50% and 30 %< CH6< 70%). The plane will fly in a loop upon the sequence of 1 to 4, skip the waypoint turned off, and return to home while over the safe time.
  • Page 32 (post-push to double-engine, increase the aileron area, move the center of gravity backward, adjust the CTL control value) or choose the Arkbird-VTOL matching model (the parameters have been debugged). When the mixing control is set to BIMOFW (double-engine flying wings), the above menu...
  • Page 33 MAX Descend Arkbird Autopilot will not decrease throttle when rate of descent over the MAX descend, but throttle will be automatically closed when throttle is less than 20%. If quad is “+” and “X” mode, when the mixing control is set to non-BioMotor mixing, the above menu becomes the quad related parameter setting.
  • Page 34 OSD will display L (lock) to O (unlock) Unlock the throttle and start flying. For more details of installation, please refer to the document "Arkbird VTOL Vertical Take-off and Landing Installation Instructions".
  • Page 35 Skills for Balance Mode and RTH Mode The Arkbird flight control has an intelligent adaptive control algorithm, which automatically collects the throttle for horizontal flight. If the rudder angle is installed properly, there is no need to adjust any parameters, but if you want to achieve the most ideal state, you can debug according to the following methods: After the first installation, enter the OSD menu to perform a level calibration.
  • Page 36 Arkbird Adjust RTH parameters referring to these values. If the roll angle is too small to return promptly, please increase Roll. If the turning is to fast so that the RTH line is “S” sharp, decrease the Max Roll and increase Rudder control (Yaw ctl).
  • Page 37 Arkbird Digital Video Transmitter Settings Receiver: The receiver only needs to be connected to the round port (using 12V power supply) and HDMI interface, and it will work automatically after power on. (It is recommended to power on the display first, and then power on the receiver.

  • Page 38: Faq And Solutions

    Arkbird FAQ and Solutions： ★When switching to Balance Mode, the elevator will lift up a bit because the “Elevate Angle in a level flight” in the menu is defaulted as 5°. Which means the plane will rise a bit in a level flight to ensure a level route.

  • Page 39: Attentions

    Attentions Please read carefully the safety measures of Arkbird fixed-wing balancer: ★The purpose of the balancer is to maintain the flight balance of the model airplane. It cannot control the aircraft or prevent stalls. You must have enough fixed-wing experience to control the flight of the aircraft.
  • Page 40 ★The equipment on the aircraft and any electronic products cannot be completely reliable. When using the Arkbird fixed-wing balancer, you should evaluate the product and use the system in accordance with relevant regulations. The system provider will not cause any damage caused by the use of the product Responsible for direct or indirect losses and consequences.

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