Explorer

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 aircraft fly an Apogee or a Tawaki autopilot board.

A on board Raspberry Pi compagnon board is connected to the autopilot to provide additional communication and processing task.
A on ground Raspberry PI board is connected to the ground station to provide additional communication task.

The RPI Zero and RPI 3B cand used in this aircraft as they provided at least one UART and one USB

Additional equipements connected to the autopilot board are :

Dshot 4in1 ESC board
GPS (D-GPS)
Xbee
Leds
Radio control
Servo

Additional equipements connected to the compagnon board are :

Camera
External wifi

Level2

Level3

Outdoor RTK

The RTK system consists on an onboard and onground equipment: the ublox NEO-M8P This chip is provided by Drotek in two boards : Tiny M8P and XL M8P. Each board can play the rover station or the stationary station