A survey of Open-Source UAV flight controllers and flight simulators
A survey of Open-Source UAV flight controllers and flight simulators
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DOI：
10.1016/j.micpro.2018.05.002
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发表时间：
2018-09-01
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2.6
通讯作者：
Schultz, Ulrik Pagh
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作者：
Ebeid, Emad;Skriver, Martin;Schultz, Ulrik Pagh
当前民用无人机（UAV）应用的颠覆性创新导致对无人机技术研究和开发的需求增加。目前正在解决的关键挑战与无人机平台属性有关，如功能、可靠性、容错能力和耐久性，这些都与无人机飞行控制器硬件和软件紧密相关。然而，在许多无人机平台上缺乏飞行控制器架构的标准化和专有闭源飞行控制器的使用，使这项工作复杂化：为一个飞行控制器开发的解决方案可能很难移植到另一个飞行控制器，而没有大量额外的开发和测试。使用开源飞行控制器减轻了其中的一些挑战，并使其他研究人员能够在现有研究的基础上验证和构建。本文介绍了可用于研究和开发的公开可用的开源无人机平台元素的调查。该调查涵盖了开源硬件、软件和模拟无人机平台，并比较了它们的主要功能。
The current disruptive innovation in civilian drone (UAV) applications has led to an increased need for research and development in UAV technology. The key challenges currently being addressed are related to UAV platform properties such as functionality, reliability, fault tolerance, and endurance, which are all tightly linked to the UAV flight controller hardware and software. The lack of standardization of flight controller architectures and the use of proprietary closed-source flight controllers on many UAV platforms, however, complicates this work: solutions developed for one flight controller may be difficult to port to another without substantial extra development and testing. Using open-source flight controllers mitigates some of these challenges and enables other researchers to validate and build upon existing research.This paper presents a survey of the publicly available open-source drone platform elements that can be used for research and development. The survey covers open-source hardware, software, and simulation drone platforms and compares their main features.