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Gazebo to test a flight controller

Hi all! Im actually building a quadcopter (accelerometer+gyroscopemotor+props+esc...) I would like to develop my own flight controller.

Just discovered Gazebo. Do you think Gazebo could be interesting to develop and test a flight controller? (Dont wanna use much time creating 3d models, etc...)

Asked by jasomo on 2015-01-19 10:15:13 UTC

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You can take a look at hector_quadrotor. It uses ROS and not pure Gazebo, but implements everything you need for flying a quadrotor in Gazebo. This means you could re-write parts of all of the controller and experiment with it. You could also strip out the ROS parts if you like.

Asked by Stefan Kohlbrecher on 2015-01-23 10:27:11 UTC

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Hello. Are there any details about the mapping between the PWM values and RPMs for the propellers? This seems relevant for the (non-Twist) flight controllers.

Asked by SL Remy on 2015-01-26 15:08:35 UTC