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

The Explorer frame is 3Dprinted [[Explorer/3DPrinted]]<br />

The aircraft flies an Apogee or a Tawaki autopilot board [[Explorer/PPRZ]].<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 />
[[Explorer/RaspberryPi]]

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

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