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Sepehr MohaimenianPour edited this page Aug 13, 2018 · 3 revisions

Introduction

In this project, we intend to add support for ArduCopter in the original NVidia Redtail project. This Wiki is complementary to the original project's Wiki and only covers the changes we made for ArduPilot support. For more information on Nvidia Redtail project and all the requirements please refer to their Wiki.

Simulation

It is usually a very good idea to develop and test everything in a simulator before deploying on a real robot. In our Simulation page, we have introduced all the required components for running the Redtail project on ArduCopter in SITL+Gazebo. We have also provided a Docker image which installs all the components automatically and prepares the workstation you need to run the code on a simulator.

Hardware setup

Progress on deploying this package on a drone running ArduCopter on a Pixhawk 2.1 (cube) is covered in this blog post

You should be able to run this project on any drone uses ArduCopter and autopilot and is equipped with a front facing camera and optical flow sensor for navigation in GPS denied environments and also an NVIDIA Jetson module for running TrailNet DNN on it. If you have such a drone ready to fly, follow these instructions to prepare your drone for this project and start flying.

References

NVIDIA-Jetson/redtail Wiki

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