Intelligent Quads Tutorials

Intelligent Quads is a community dedicated to helping people learn how to become a developer of intelligent drone applications.

Each of the bellow tutorials has an associated video tutorial. Be sure to checkout the Intelligent Quads Youtube Channel!

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Software Development Tutorials

Installing Ardupilot and MAVProxy

Installing QGroundControl

Installing Gazebo and ArduPilot Plugin

Installing ROS and MAVROS

Introduction to ROS and ROS Tools for Drone Development

C++ Waypoint Navigation Using the GNC API

ArduCopter Params and MAVproxy Commands

Basic Gazebo Modeling

Intoduction to YOLO Image Recognition

Writing our First ROS Subscriber for YOLO

Simple Search and Rescue Program

Adding a Sensor to a Gazebo Robot

Obstacle Avoidance

Installing Mission Planner On Linux

Training YOLO

Basic GPS Denied Navigation

Using an RC Controller with MAVproxy

Drone Swarms with Ardupilot

Drone Swarms with Ardupilot+MAVROS

Multi-rotor Design Tutorials

Design Principals

Associated Repos

iq_sim

• Repo containing helpful gazebo worlds designed for ardupilot sitl

iq_gnc

• Repo containing iq gnc function which are helpful for designing guidance programs for drones. The repo also contains a variety of example mission programs.

Resources

Common Linux, ROS and MAVproxy Commands

GNC API Documentation

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References

http://ardupilot.org/copter/index.html

http://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/parameters.html#wpnav-parameters

http://qgroundcontrol.com/

https://discuss.ardupilot.org/

http://ardupilot.org/dev/

https://www.ros.org/