Open Source Autonomous Sailplane Gliding Software

Basics

• (i MAY have made this page before, search engine couldn't find it)
• Essentially a software and/or firmware that takes:
  • Elevation Data
  • Weather Data
  • Telemetry from Plane
  • Ardupilot based mission/route info
• It then uses this to determine where there will most likely be "thermals"
• It then plans how to use these to reach roughly the same path as the ardupilot plan
  • Perhaps make some plugin?
    • Have the route/loop for the mission, then have power used v glide caused variation in route+time spent getting from point a to b ?
• Need to see if this could be done "on machine", or require a seperate computer to do the work, and send simple data to the plane

Internal Links

• Open Source Autonomous Sailboat Sailing Software (similar concept but for boats, and perhaps those odd land based sail things?)
• DroneKite a concept that uses a kite to "pull" a quadcopter. Needs a similar software

External Links

• The Wikipedia Page on Gliders
• "Project Frigatebird: AI for Autonomous Soaring" - a microsoft project
• A Playlist by User: Eric 's youtube account on this