AVTv4

An extensible quadcopter platform by the Portland State Autonomous Vehicles Team

Installing the QuadHLFC and Flying the Quadcopter

Once the quadcopter is entirely assembled and the control board is flashed, the laptop environment should be set up using the higher level flight computer.

Get the HLFC tarball and run the install script.

cd QuadHLFC/

Make sure the joystick is plugged in. Check settings.py and ensure the joystick device in is the one your joystick uses. Default is /dev/js0

python main.py

The textual output on the screen reflects the quadcopter data over the XBee. Push the buttons and move the joystick to verify correct operation.

Example debug output. Error outputs only show errors.

Modify settings.py