Hi,
I would like to apologize if this question has been answered already.
is it possible to run the Paparazzi software on the Pixhawk board?
My thought process is that pixhawk is a board with a bunch of sensors, I can technically use any software i like on it. I could be wrong.
Some help would be much appreciated
Rai Gohalwar
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Hi Rai,
As Piotr already said there is currently no complete or official support for the Pixhawk in Paparazzi.
There is basic support for the px4fmu v2.4 (see https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/pull/1384), but e.g. the SPI driver for the lsm303d is missing, MPU works fine though.
See https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/blob/master/conf/airframes/u... for a test airframe file.
Although it isn't complete (and a board file for the IO processor is also missing), it shouldn't be hard to finish this.
Just needs someone who actually has the hardware and some time to do it ;-)
Cheers, Felix
You are correct, nothing is really preventing any software to run on the Pixhawk board. Here is the list of all the currently supported boards in Paparazzi UAV: https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/tree/master/conf/boards
There is some basic support for the px4fmu but no one has added support for Pixhawk yet. Pixhawk has a split architecture with two processors, as it evolved from the px4fmu + px4io. There are some drivers still missing to support the px4io in Paparazzi as far as I know. But if you know how to program it should not be a large hurdle.
I think no one has done that yet because it is just much easier to use one of the well tested Paparazzi UAV boards like the Lisa/MX, Elle0 or Apogee.
I hope this helps.
Cheers,
Piotr