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The Explorer is a rotorcraft. <br />
The Explorer is a rotorcraft. <br />
It is used to test <br />
It is used to test : <br />
* control loops such as PID and INDI  
* control loops such as PID and INDI  
* simultaneous datalinks such as Xbee and Wifibroadcast
* simultaneous datalinks such as Xbee and Wifibroadcast
* vision algorithm
* vision algorithm


The aircraft flies an Apogee or a Tawaki autopilot board.<br />
The Explorer frame is 3Dprinted [[Explorer/3DPrinted]]<br />
There are two RaspberryPi<br />
 
- on board, as a compagnon board, connected to the autopilot to provide additional communication and processing task.<br />
The aircraft flies an Apogee or a Tawaki autopilot board [[Explorer/PPRZ]].<br />
- on ground, as an interface to the compagnon board, and connected to the ground station to provide additional communication task.<br />
 
The RaspberryPi provides:<br />
- a camera link <br />
- an additional communication link <br />
- an easy way to run computation tasks <br />
 
There are two RaspberryPi :<br />
- on board, as a companion board to the autopilot<br />
- on ground, as an interface to the companion board<br />


The RPI Zero and RPI 3B can be used in this aircraft as they provided at least one UART and one USB <br />
The RPI Zero and RPI 3B can be used in this aircraft as they provided at least one UART and one USB <br />
[[Explorer/RaspberryPi]]
[[Explorer/RaspberryPi]]


Additional equipements are connected to the autopilot board :
The equipments connected to the autopilot board are :
* Dshot 4in1 ESC board
* Dshot 4in1 ESC board
* GPS (D-GPS) [[Explorer/RTK]]
* GPS (D-GPS) [[Explorer/RTK]]
* Xbee  
* Xbee [[Explorer/Xbee]]
* Leds
* Leds [[Explorer/Leds]]
* Radio control  
* Radio control  
* Servo
* Servo [[Explorer/Servo]]


Additional equipements are connected to the compagnon board :
The equipments connected to the companion board are :
* Camera  
* Camera  
* External wifi
* External wifi

Latest revision as of 00:16, 7 July 2020

The Explorer is a rotorcraft.
It is used to test :

  • control loops such as PID and INDI
  • simultaneous datalinks such as Xbee and Wifibroadcast
  • vision algorithm

The Explorer frame is 3Dprinted Explorer/3DPrinted

The aircraft flies an Apogee or a Tawaki autopilot board Explorer/PPRZ.

The RaspberryPi provides:
- a camera link
- an additional communication link
- an easy way to run computation tasks

There are two RaspberryPi :
- on board, as a companion board to the autopilot
- on ground, as an interface to the companion board

The RPI Zero and RPI 3B can be used in this aircraft as they provided at least one UART and one USB
Explorer/RaspberryPi

The equipments connected to the autopilot board are :

The equipments connected to the companion board are :

  • Camera
  • External wifi