Building a Custom Flight Controller
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Hello,
Wondering if anyone here has worked on a custom flight controller stack not built on PX4, but which still uses Mavlink message standards.
I just started on this effort.
If so, I would like to know where dependencies might lie outside of the PX4 build. What VOXL data pipelines would break? Quite new to Modal's stack.
Thanks!
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Hello,
Wondering if anyone here has worked on a custom flight controller stack not built on PX4, but which still uses Mavlink message standards.
I just started on this effort.
If so, I would like to know where dependencies might lie outside of the PX4 build. What VOXL data pipelines would break? Quite new to Modal's stack.
Thanks!
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@tyorb , are you asking if it is possible to run a custom flight controller on VOXL2 DSP (this is where majority of PX4 is running on VOXL2, although there are some parts that run on CPU as well)?
@Alex-Kushleyev, yes that would be the goal. I'm trying to identify where best it makes sense to run a custom flight controller in the current architecture. I realize I could do something external, but I would like to keep everything just to the VOXL2 using the I/O expander board for PWM output.
I know this is quite a tough question that isn't very well defined, but I would really appreciate any advice if there have been attempts to perform similar things before.
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@Alex-Kushleyev, yes that would be the goal. I'm trying to identify where best it makes sense to run a custom flight controller in the current architecture. I realize I could do something external, but I would like to keep everything just to the VOXL2 using the I/O expander board for PWM output.
I know this is quite a tough question that isn't very well defined, but I would really appreciate any advice if there have been attempts to perform similar things before.
@tyorb It would be a massive undertaking and we would only be able to provide very minimal support. I'd definitely recommend against it.
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