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Add Support for DJI Onboard-SDK #1824

Open demoniusrex opened 5 years ago

demoniusrex commented 5 years ago

I am working on support in AirSim DroneServer for DJI flight controllers that use the Onboard-SDK (Linux only) which includes N3,A3 and most Matrice series (Compatibility)

Here is the work-in-progress master branch on GitHub (working project codename "Rosie")

AirSim-Onboard

Please let me know if you have any feedback.

I have basic RPC Multi-rotor API functionality working and a new version of DroneServer that takes into account the differences in startup for DJI Onboard-SDK compared to PX4.

Supported RPC commands include takeoff, land, movetoposition,path,rotate,etc. Video is not supported yet and I do not have the hardware to test it.

I am just starting on the Unreal simulation support but it appears that the simulation model is quite different.

I have some questions about what it will take to work towards a PR of such magnitude.

  1. Is Linux-only support for DJI Onboard-SDK a non-starter for eventually merging to the master for AirSim? Because DJI Onboard SDK only supports Linux I created a new project with AirSim as a submodule instead of working inside of AirSim fork. I can work towards reintegrating the multi-rotor implementation back into the fork if this would be allowed.

  2. Is it acceptable to submit PR to merge a multi-rotor implementation to AirSim branch that supports RPC client-server (DroneServer) without supporting Unreal-Unity simulation? If a branch in the main repo could be used for work-in-progress it might be more prominent for drumming up contributions/testing.

Thanks

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