The aim of this project is to release a glider from a high altitude weather balloon and have the glider autonomously navigate back to a target landing spot where it can be recovered.
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README.md

spaceplane

The aim of this project is to release a glider from a high altitude weather balloon and have the glider autonomously navigate back to a target landing spot where it can be recovered.

We had a successful launch of our glider from 10km. See the video and check out the logs and google earth file. There is more information about our glider available in the video description.

SETUP

RASPI-CONFIG

  • enable ssh
  • disable serial
  • expand os
  • disable gui
  • set hostname to droneberry
  • set password to *********
  • reboot

DEPENDENCIES

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install vim python-pip python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev tmux
sudo pip install requests monotonic future mavproxy dronekit pyserial pymavlink 

DRONEKIT

Dronekit was edited according to ticket 585 to avoid receiving problematic messages from a GCS

sudo mv /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dronekit/test/__init.py__ /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dronekit/test/__init.py__.original
sudo cp ~/dro.ne/droneberry/dronekit_util/__init.py /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dronekit/test/__init.py__