Flores, Alejandro (Center for Research in Optics, A.C.), Flores, Gerardo (Center for Research in Optics, A.C.)

Development and Implementation of a New Flight Mode Called Cartesian Flight Mode for Easy Piloting of Muli-Rotor UAVs

Scheduled for presentation during the Regular Session "Navigation" (WeB1), Wednesday, June 16, 2021, 15:00−15:20, Macedonia Hall

2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), June 15-18, 2021, Athens, Greece

This information is tentative and subject to change. Compiled on April 20, 2024

Abstract

This paper presents the development and implementation of a variant of the manual flight mode, the Cartesian mode, which consists of the directional control of a multi-rotor UAV w.r.t. its heading and pilot's heading. The main objective of the presented flight mode is to ease the manual displacement control while the pilot has a ground Point of View (POV). The flight mode's concept is implemented in the PX4 firmware under Software-in-the-Loop (SITL) simulations and real flights to assess its performance applied to a real quad-rotor. The results obtained during simulations and real experiments show that the flight mode performs correctly.