Autonomous Drone with Custom Flight Control Firmware

About the Project

We developed a customized Ardupilot firmware with a new flight mode. This new flight mode was executing a mission that contains 3D space movements with a constant yaw movement at an unknown global location. The main challenge is to fulfill the task without using a companion computer of outer computational connection. We used Gazebo to test the firmware at the early stages. As a team of two, we had one night to build a new drone for the competition, because our experimental firmware destroyed the first drone while testing it on the tennis court of our university :)