Lecture Description:

To operate UAVs (drones) and professional robots, you need a rich mixture of sensors, actuators and processing capabilities for optimal performance: motor drivers, positional and movements data, wireless communication links, data collection/manipulation/compression/storage, autonomous operation, etc. Developing such a control platform is a labor and cost intense activity and requires a heterogenous processing architecture.


Therefore Topic and Xilinx agreed to develop such a generic, free programmable platform to drive these types of platforms. In this presentation we will zoom in on software, firmware and hardware aspect related to developments with such a platform. E.g. integration of ROS2 and PX4 autopilot and their relevance are part of the presentation.
This presentation will be illustrated by a life demonstration using a drone.