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[Competition Requirements] [CR]Competition Requirements

📐 Architecture

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The architecture of a drone can be found in the [Competition Design Outline]. <# iterations> iterations of the drone will be created, at <#milestones>. <# final copies> of the drone will be created in “competition spec”. Our system will meet the requirements in [Competition Requirements].

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The PX5 Will be set as a real time backup, as well as potentially act as a sensor readout. does the px5 need to be placed in the middle of the airframe for inertial computation to work? It The PX5 has 3 IMUs, 2 temperature calibrated barometers, and will run it’s own sensor fusion algorithms and can act as a backup source of information for position, and a primary source of altitude information. It does not strictly need to placed at COM since GQC can correct for this. Dhruv Upadhyay

When the PX5 is acting as a real-time backup, the PX5 will be communicating to and from ZP using 3 PPM wires. 1 PPM will be from ZP → PX5, acting as 8 controller inputs, while 2 PPM will be from PX5 → ZP, acting as direct motor outputs. This retains ZPin control of communications and other functions of the drone, but allows for failsafe in case of a compute error inside of ZeroPilot’s own attitude management system. The PPM from PX5 will either be encoded directly onboard, or the PM outputs from px5 will be converted externally by PWM → PPM converters.

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