Autonomy and Beyond

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Teams are encouraged to learn and practice programming with their drone. While it is not mandatory, programming the drone to perform tasks autonomously will give you an edge in the competition.

To gain an understanding of how autonomy works with the AVR drone please watch the video below.

Once you gain an understanding of how autonomy works through simulation you are ready to run your code on the real AVR drone. Make sure you pay attention to the following parameter:

MPC_XY_VEL_MAX

The default autonomous flight speed in PX4 is too fast for the AVR game court. You will need to slow it down. Our recommendation is something around 0.25 to 0.5 m/s, which is roughly 0.5 to 1 mph.

The example below demonstrates how we’ve set this param to 1 mph.

AVR drone right side view

The following sections will help you with:

• Installing and using VS Code to manage your project
• Installing and using Python
• Installing and working with git
• Using the Bell AVR sandbox environment
• Building and running your code with Docker

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