hopewhd / rapidquadrocoptertrajectories

Computationally low-cost interception trajectories for quadrocopters

Quadrocopter trajectory generator

Mark W. Mueller ([email protected])

This contains source code implementing a method for rapidly generating trajectories for quadrocopters. The two folders give implementations for both C++ code, and Python. These are equivalent, but independent of one another.

The Python code allows to quickly plot some trajectories too.

The C++ code has comments which can be compiled with Doxygen.

The algorithm is described in the following paper: M.W. Mueller, M. Hehn, and R. D'Andrea, "A computationally efficient motion primitive for quadrocopter trajectory generation," IEEE Transactions on Robotics Volume 31, no.8, pages 1294-1310, 2015.

The paper may be downloaded here.

Quickstart

If you'd just quickly like to see something running, run the file Python/demo.py This will make a plot, visualising a trajectory. You can then change the trajectory parameters, and see how this affects things.

Licensing

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.