Welcome to the MatrixPilot codebase. Three board types are supported:-
- the [UDB4] (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/11115)
- the [UDB5] (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11703) from SparkFun
- the [AUAV3] (http://arsovtech.com/?p=1257) from Arsov RC Technology.
Projects for the three boards are provided for the MPLAB-X Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and XC16 compiler. From October 2016, the master branch no longer supports the legacy MPLAB IDE.
There are 4 projects in the repository. They are listed here in order of increasing complexity:-
- ./Tools/FlashOSD updates the character set of the native On Screen Display (OSD).
- ./Tools/LedTest is used to test hardware including the accelerometers, gyros, Leds, and PWM outputs.It is factory installed for all 3 boards allowing users to test their boards on delivery.
- ./RollPitchYaw creates an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). It enables higher level testing of algorithms, firmware and hard hardware all combined together.
- ./MatrixPilot integrates the IMU with full automated flight control.
There are two types of simulation avaiable:-
- Software in the Loop (SIL) is provided in ./Tools/MatrixPilot-SIL. The autopilot is simulated as a software process in a host computer (Unix, MacOS, Windows) and that is then, in turn, connected to fly an aircraft in the X-Plane 10 flight simulator.
- Hardware in the Loop (HIL) connects a physical board running MatrixPilot to a simulated aircraft in X-Plane 10. It is enabled for any board by setting a parameter in ./Config/options.h when compiling MatrixPilot.
./Tools/HilSim provides the software plugin for X-Plane10 to link to the SIL or HIL versions of MatrixPilot.
./Tools/flight_analyzer provides a python program that allows analysis and display of flights in GoogleEarth.
For developers, there is also a makefile based build system (build-all.bat) and a project generator (Tools/Build/proj_gen.bat), which both Windows and *nix compatible.
For more info about how to configure and use this autopilot firmware, go to the Wiki at:
https://github.com/MatrixPilot/MatrixPilot/wiki
and see the mailing list at: