lindemer / baldr

Quadcopter flight simulator

baldr

An open source flight simulator for aerial drones written entirely in Python. This is currently a Linux-only project. baldr is an extension for the MORSE robotics simulator: https://www.openrobots.org/wiki/morse/.

Here's a short video demonstration of v1.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0st4ma6SF8Y&feature=youtu.be.

Installation Instructions

1. Install the required Python libraries if you don't already have them (the MORSE robotics simulator requires Python3): $ sudo apt-get install python3 python3-scipy python3-numpy python3-matplotlib

2. Install MORSE with the command: $ sudo apt-get install morse-simulator. If you don't already have Blender, this should install it automatically. Use the default settings (ie. make the default folder for simulation files your Home folder).

3. You need to create a simulation called "baldr" in MORSE. Do this with the command: $ morse create baldr. This will create a folder in your Home directory called ~/baldr with some MORSE simulation files in it, and it will also add a line to the ~/.morse/config file to identify the name "baldr" as a MORSE simulation.

4. Clone this repository with $ git clone https://github.com/motet/baldr.git and replace all the contents of the new ~/baldr folder with the contents of the repository you just downloaded.

5. To run the MORSE component of the simulator, use the command: $ morse run baldr

6. To run the GUI component of the simulator, use the command: $ python3 ~/baldr/scripts/main.py

baldr's Issues

Video demonstratrion

Hello!

Can you make a little video showing how this project works? For exemple, how works the simulator. Nothing special, just 2 minutes :)

Add license

Hello! I just discovered this project and it looks awesome 😄 congratulations and thanks for sharing!

I would like to ask you if you would mind choosing a license for the project. Right now it's unclear what form of "open source" do you have in mind, and in most legislations we cannot use this code 😞

My personal preference and the standard for scientific Python libraries is BSD/MIT, but I encourage you to take a look here http://choosealicense.com/

Cheers!