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Autonomous Multirotor Drone

Role
Avionics and mission software
Context
Atılım University Robotics Society
Period
2020-2021
Competition
TÜBİTAK International Drone Competition
Navio 2Raspberry PiPythonTelemetry
Avionics layout: Raspberry Pi + Navio 2, GPS antenna, ESCs and a 13,000 mAh LiPo

I designed and assembled the avionics system, integrated the Navio 2 flight controller as a HAT on Raspberry Pi, established telemetry and GPS communication and enabled autonomous flight.

I performed motor selection and the thrust and endurance calculations that drove ESC and battery selection, designed the payload mechanism and developed mission-specific image processing in Python.

Navio 2Raspberry PiPython TelemetryGPSThrust calculationPayload mechanism

The direct ancestor of the SUAS work: same airframe class, same problem family, four years earlier. This is where flight hardware first met my image processing code.