P04 is a substantial milestone in the project. It can be described with these three points:
- RQ01: "the thing" shall be able to elevate a few centimeters above the ground,
- RQ02: it shall be able to stay stationary for a few seconds
- RQ03: it shall be able to land softly (that is: without crashing)
COSMEcopter attached to the "jamonero", ready to perform another batch of One Axis Integration Tests. |
Well, only three short one-line-requisites shouldn´t be very hard to achieve, should they?
By now, Eugenio Alcalá is struggling with a series of one axis integration tests, where two motors are running in a coordinated fashion for the first time in the project.
This test is meant not only to validate the control algorithms, but also to answer an even more important question: Is the realtime performance of the combo "Raspberry-Pi-computer + Linux-Preemptive-RT-kernel-patch" good enough for this kind of tasks?
Félix Serna