#AIO DRONE STATION DIY SOFTWARE#

Industry partners include chip makers like Intel and Qualcomm as well as by FOSS based drone manufacturers.ĭevelopment and experimentation has begun using more powerful Linux based Raspberry Pi controllers.

#AIO DRONE STATION DIY SOFTWARE#

This collection of interoperable drone applications is called the 'Drone software Stack'.īig open source institutions like the Linux Foundation (industry financed) are sponsoring flight software operating systems through the DroneCode project.

The software applications are all expected to interface with one another and operate together seamlessly. PX4 and APM are the two leading open source candidates for flight control software.įlight control software has evolved beyond basic flight to include a suite of tools to support flight including mission planning software, mobile apps, autonomous operation, collision avoidance, telemetry processing, cameras and sensors support and applications for many esoteric functions. Of course this is only useful as an outdoor feature which requires a clear view of the sky and satellite signals. GPS supports hands off drone position keeping 'Loiter Mode' (lat/lon and altitude hold) and 'return to launch' (RTL), a failsafe that automatically returns the drone to its launch point. At a bare minimum it typically can autonomously follow a flight plan or take inputs from a remote control transmitter.Įither source of control input is processed by the flight software to send the appropriate signals to the Electronic Speed Controllers (ESC) which control the speed of the electric motors.Ĭalculations often involve using Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), Global Position Satellite (GPS) position, altitude (barometric altimeter) and compass bearing (magnetometer) to improve position awareness and position stability. The flight software is the software resident on the drone itself.

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