JAMES is part of a bigger project: an airborne experimental test platform called Sparrow One. JAMES is the most low-level electronic contoller aboard (taking into account the ESCs). It's main purpose is to keep the craft stable in flight, and to control the power hardware. It houses the IMU and the barometer amongst other sensors, collects measurements and controls the ESCs. JAMES takes in the desired pitch, roll, and yaw angles, the desired altitude, heading and velocity and manipulates the engines accordingly. Control of JAMES' flight parameters happens either manually or automatically by another computer aboard.
JAMES is an ATmega328p based control board I designed and built. This repo is dedicated to the development of the firmware running this computer.
- The code should be structured in a proper, C++ default way, instead of a the cluster of .ino files I'm using at the moment.
- Altitude control and stabilization
- Autonomous emergency landing
- ZEUS autonomous mission capabilities (JAMES is mostly ready for this at this point, although completely autonomous flight has not been tested as ZEUS still has a long way to go.)
- Safety landing in case of an engine falure
The project (./firmware) is Arduino based and is entirely written in C++. It can be built and compiled for use with the ATmega328p using the Arduino IDE.
Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.
The JAMES flight computer firmware is available under the MIT license.
