dRehmFlight
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dRehmFlight
- Getting into RC Planes
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First DIY Drone Questions!
Since you mentioned programming, one other thing you should consider is the firmware. FPV drones typically run the betaflight firmware. betaflight is fairly mature, feature-rich and is aimed at racers and freestyle pilots. If you’re looking more to tinker with programing, you could start with this instead of a more standard flight controller: https://github.com/nickrehm/dRehmFlight
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Book on programming my own autopilot
I have similar aspirations. No books, but if you want an example of someone who’s done that before, check out drhemflight. It’s not fully autonomous, but it’s a modular flight stabilizer running on teensy, which uses arduino IDE
- Does anyone know about a good avionics related open source project for learning purposes?
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Seeking Advice and Help in Creating a Custom Flight Controller for My Mini Programmable Drone
There's several flight control systems on Github, such as Ardupilot, for example. I wouldn't undertake this without checking out what's already out there, all the way down to simple stabilization systems.
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Ask HN: Best programmable drone / open source OS?
To add to this, most of the time one doesn't need to hack on the drone firmware itself. Just configuring/hacking the mission planner alone would go a long way: https://ardupilot.org/planner/
But if you're interested in more readable codebases without too much legacy headaches:
https://github.com/BossHobby/QUICKSILVER (for indoor drones mostly)
And for even less functionality but a good learning tool kind of codebase:
https://github.com/nickrehm/dRehmFlight
- Building Flight computer from scratch
- Does anyone have all the math required for creating a stabilization program for a rocket?
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What did you wish you knew before making your own drone from scratch?
dRehmFlight is about the simplest a flight controller can get (in terms of code readability).
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Inverted pendulum on a racing drone (power loop attempted)
This is actually my own flight controller code running on a teensy 4.0 microcontroller, coded in arduino: https://github.com/nickrehm/dRehmFlight
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
What are some alternatives?
DroneDB - Free and open source software for aerial data storage.
inav - INAV: Navigation-enabled flight control software
drone-flight-controller - A quadcopter flight controller based on Arduino Uno
PX4-Autopilot - PX4 Autopilot Software
ParaDrone - AutoPilot for Parachutes
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
AUnit - Unit testing framework for Arduino platforms inspired by ArduinoUnit and Google Test. Used with EpoxyDuino for continuous builds.
MicroPython - MicroPython - a lean and efficient Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems
QuickPID - A fast PID controller with multiple options. Various Integral anti-windup, Proportional, Derivative and timer control modes.
fprime - F´ - A flight software and embedded systems framework
PID-Line-Follower - A robot which can follow a curvilinear path directed by a line on a surface, wherein both are of different colors. It uses a PID controller to do the same.
paparazzi - Paparazzi is a free and open-source hardware and software project for unmanned (air) vehicles. This is the main software repository.