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Paparazzi UAV Release: v5.8 Stable

Posted by earthpatrol on December 22, 2015 at 4:45pm
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Season Greetings,

Just in time for the holidays we are happy to announce the release of Paparazzi v5.8_stable.

Check out the v5.8 branch from git to stay on this stable branch (which as usual will get some important fixes backported) or use the master branch to follow the latest development.
With contributions from over 20 people, we fixed a lot of bugs, improved things here and there and have quite a few major additions compared to v5.6.

Just to pick out a few:
- ADS-B support
- improved use of optic flow for velocity estimation
- improved mavlink support
- possibility to reduce RAM and Flash usage by compressing sine table
- hence support for naze32, CC3D and CJMCU boards
- flip mode for multicopters
- INDI guidance loop
- lots of improvements/additions for computer vision modules
- high speed logging to SD Card via SPI
- improve support for Bebop and add Bebop2
- guided mode for rotorcrafts

Please see the CHANGELOG for a more detailed list of changes and new features.

Enjoy,

The Paparazzi UAV Team

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  • earthpatrol December 23, 2015 at 11:51pm

    You can also build everything on the command line, if that floats your boat. The architecture of the Paparazzi UAV system is well designed from a software system architecture standpoint.

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    Chris Anderson December 23, 2015 at 11:48pm

    So you can just plug in a Naze32 board via USB and it will automatically compile and load the firmware via the Mac version of the GCS? I don't know what a "DFU util" is ...

  • earthpatrol December 23, 2015 at 11:35pm

    @chris_anderson & @Rana,  the Paparazzi Center handles the compilation of the firmware either for flight or simulation as well as the loading of the firmware to the target aircraft. If that's what you are asking? This has been in Paparazzi for years. This is a screen shot of the Paparazzi Center that let's you manage your collection of aircraft. 

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    Depending on the flight controller you are using, you can use Black Magic Probe(JTAG or SWD), STLink, as well as USB with the DFU util.

  • 3D Robotics
    Chris Anderson December 23, 2015 at 8:11am

    Can you load the code via the GCS, or do you need to build a toolchain and compile it?

  • earthpatrol December 23, 2015 at 12:58am

    @Chris_Anderson Mac OS X and Linux. That image shown is a screen capture of the GCS running on Mac OS X of a multi-UAV flight.

  • Martin Mueller December 23, 2015 at 12:44am

    You think Paparazzi should get organized in the Linux Foundation?

  • Ye Wang December 22, 2015 at 10:56pm

    once managed to get 5.4 dev branch working on os x, but failed to do so after git pull.

  • 3D Robotics
    Chris Anderson December 22, 2015 at 10:27pm

    Is this Linux-only?

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