hello,
i'm a a college student and i want something special as a project, i have the time and the ability to learn.
I was thinking about autonomous quadcopter, smart ones, and i n order to achieve autonomousity and smartness, i thought of linux!
I'm not fan of electronics and arduino, i've been working as software developer and all i do care about is software. Raspberry-pi seemed to be a good starting point, with this huge list of expansion boards, it can become anything i want. It has also all types of sensors i need to replace those found on autopilots (flight controllers). The question that remains unanswered for me is, is there an (immature) open source project that has flight controlling algorithms and can be ran on microprocessors, not microcontrollers, which i can start with? if not, what are the main points that i need to work on? Is it a good idea to use a huge physics library for future enhancements of the quadcopter abilities?
I'm also planning to build a GCS for it maybe for android too. And im not thinking about the raspberry-pi limited computing speed because i can use any other dev board with GPIOs.
thanks in advance :)
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