Hi,
I’m starting a new project that will be a form of stabilized flight platform and am currently looking at available hardware solutions. Based on my initial research it seems the Pixhawk series and PX4 would be a great place to start, however, I have a few questions maybe you can help with.
I have already created a simulation of my flight platform within Webots. and I’m now looking at creating a real test version of the hardware. My platform does not fall into any of the currently available flight platform categories such as multirotor or single rotor etc. So Ultimately I will probably have to port my own code into the Pixhawk hardware.
My questions are:
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As a starting point, is there a configuration with default firmware that I could send pitch/roll/yaw and heave corrections (via serial?) to my own controller that would then implement the rotor control algorithm. I could simply setup the software as a quad multirotor then read the PWM outputs for each rotor and extrapolate the pitch/roll/yaw info from them, but it seems like a poor way to do this going through an analogue conversion of signals. (I currently don’t need an autopilot, just stabilized flight)
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I’ve been reading up on the various hardware options available, and I like the triple redundant system like the cube black. Would this be a good system to start with or would a Pixhawk 4 or Pixhawk 2 be just as good as a starting hardware platform?
Thanks for any help or tips in advance.
Matt.