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ardupilot
- Reading Sensor Data From Flight Controller Mateksys F405-TE - Integrated IMU - No Documentation
- Someone is selling my stuff on Etsy, can I do anything?
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Kalman Filter Tutorial: Kalman Filter from the Ground Up
They are widely used in narrow circles :)
Two of (arguably the best) open source RC aircraft flight controllers (ArduPilot and PX4) are using extended Kalman filters in their state estimators (essentially sensor fusion that provides attitude/position estimate):
https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/tree/master/libraries...
https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/blob/main/src/modules/e...
I'm not that familiar with cleanflight/betaflight/inav scene to know what the FPV racer flight controllers use.
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Tell HN: Parrot abandoned their Bebop and Disco drones
2. https://ardupilot.org/
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here pro vs here 4 GNSS RTK performance
Trimble also has some nice stuff, I think the BD940 is interesting. I do not know if it's recommended or not, but Ardupilot has a driver for the Septentrio GPS (https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/blob/master/libraries/AP_GPS/AP_GPS_SBF.cpp), as well for Trimble GPS (https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/blob/master/libraries/AP_GPS/AP_GPS_GSOF.cpp). So people have used these brands for drones.
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Book on programming my own autopilot
For programmable open source autopilot: Arduino > Ardupilot (https://ardupilot.org).
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How do I make a flight controller and what do I need?
You might also want to look at something like Ardupilot
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Robotics team is entering in an autonomous boat competition, need some advice.
I'd like to emphasize the reference to Ardupilot bc there is a lot of material already developed there: a lot about navigation and guidance from UAVs, and the low-level stuff. Check this out
- Does anyone know about a good avionics related open source project for learning purposes?
- Programming transmitter
PX4-Autopilot
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Kalman Filter Tutorial: Kalman Filter from the Ground Up
They are widely used in narrow circles :)
Two of (arguably the best) open source RC aircraft flight controllers (ArduPilot and PX4) are using extended Kalman filters in their state estimators (essentially sensor fusion that provides attitude/position estimate):
https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/tree/master/libraries...
https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/blob/main/src/modules/e...
I'm not that familiar with cleanflight/betaflight/inav scene to know what the FPV racer flight controllers use.
- Does anyone know about a good avionics related open source project for learning purposes?
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Power electronics and embedded systems
Actually, even the General Aviation pilots who actually manually manage their own load-shedding during a mission would quite like automated power distribution and management systems... and if you felt like taking on that sort of work as a hobby project to cut your teeth, I bet the guys at the (open-source) PX4 project would bite your hand off...
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DJI drone flight log viewer
As a flight pilot engineer you have to find a sweet spot and balance logging too much and too little. Writing logs to an SD card has huge costs that come with it, that's why you don't want to log too much. Logging too little and you can't debug issues later on properly.
PX4 also has lots of "topics" logged at around 1/10, e.g. hover thrust estimate every 100ms:
https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/blob/main/src/modules/l...
- Has anyone programmed a drone?
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Help me choose a flight controller.
Okay, but nowadays most people talk about “Pixhawk” as an open-standard hardware platform and PX4 as the software. The source code is at https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot and they call themselves “PX4 Autopilot Software”.
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Best way to start getting involved with open source projects?
As an example, PX4 is a popular open source drone autopilot software: https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot
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PX4-Autopilot VS uas-catpilot - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 16 Jan 2023
- PX4 Autpilot issue witch my diy aircraft
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Having trouble finding embedded engineers, should we even be looking for embedded engineers or more optimization experts?
I am working as a Remote Embedded Software developer for quite a while now and there is no obstacle in Remote work. If I am missing anything, parts are arriving in under the week. That said, I never had a better work-life balance in the last 10 years. Anyone who said Embedded is not possible to do remotely just check any open source flight controller project (in my case PX4).
What are some alternatives?
inav - INAV: Navigation-enabled flight control software
ESP32 - DroneBridge for ESP32. A transparent short range wifi based telemetry (serial to WiFi) link. Support for MAVLink, MSP, LTM (iNAV) or any other protocol
MicroPython - MicroPython - a lean and efficient Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems
tello-ros2 - ROS2 node for DJI Tello and Visual SLAM for mapping of indoor environments.
fprime - F´ - A flight software and embedded systems framework
paparazzi - Paparazzi is a free and open-source hardware and software project for unmanned (air) vehicles. This is the main software repository.
linorobot - Autonomous ground robots (2WD, 4WD, Ackermann Steering, Mecanum Drive)
MissionPlanner - Mission Planner Ground Control Station for ArduPilot (c# .net)
GAAS - GAAS is an open-source program designed for fully autonomous VTOL(a.k.a flying cars) and drones. GAAS stands for Generalized Autonomy Aviation System.