Towards an Open Source Linux autopilot for drones

[Víctor MV]

Hi everyone,

I'd like to introduce the result of the work we performed over the last months while trying to port APM to Linux. The publication is freely available here and will be presented next November at LibreCon 2014.  

The more of us discussing this matter, the better.

Bests,

Víctor.

[Meier Lorenz]

Hi Victor,

Thanks for sharing! Linux autopilots have been demonstrated intensely in previous years and its great to see more effort into this direction now from the FOSS community. There is a lot to learn though from this experience in research, in particular when it comes to software architecture.

I’d also like to keep the discussion on this list focused onto the next step, which is more collaboration: While there are fully open-sourced autopilot designs from many different groups running on Linux, we want to move on from this „dark age“ of missing interoperability (both in terms of software components and hardware dependency) to more interoperability. So instead of having one executable and autopilot-specific or hardware-specific interface, we want to have them to work together, allowing individual contributors to focus more on the performance of a particular controller / estimator, rather than trying to do everything yourself, or being bound to one particular Linux computer or sensor suite.

We will share this week a ROS-level API request-for-comments to address this, and I’m looking forward to your comments!

-Lorenz



Am 14.10.2014 um 19:47 schrieb Víctor MV <v.may...@gmail.com<mailto:v.may...@gmail.com>>:


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Hi everyone,

I'd like to introduce the result of the work we performed over the last months while trying to port APM to Linux. The publication is freely available here<https://github.com/BeaglePilot/beaglepilot/blob/master/files/APM_Linux.pdf?raw=true> and will be presented next November at LibreCon 2014<http://www.librecon.io/en/>.

The more of us discussing this matter, the better.
Bests,

Víctor.

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