Hi Guys
I'm reading the news about the AQ project and this forum for at least one year.
Actual I'm planning to build a AQ Drone for a project at my university. If anybody is interested in, I can write some more details about the whole project at a future date. For now I'm just interested in the details to build a collision detection system. If I haven't done anything wrong while searching there is no information about this topic in this forum and at other sites I've looked either not.
I planned to use the AQ FC (with DIMU) and the ESC32. If I'm not going wrong, the DIMU which is optional mounted on the FC can't read sensor data from some direct attached sensors (e.g. Sonar). Therefor I looked for a few other units. At the moment I just found the "FreeIMU" with 10 connectors. I hope that you now know what I'm planning to do.
My question at these point is: How can I avoid any collision while the drone is in (autonomously) flight? As I wrote it was an thought to use Sonar sensors to detect anything around the flying drone an use this data to correct the course of the AUV. Do you think the this is possible? I found a Bachelor Thesis with this topic () but I'm not sure if it's possible to do the same with an AQ board. And if it is not or it is too complicated; Is it possible to realize at least an absolute distance to the ground? Not like a GPS navigation. I'm planning to use way point navigation at a mountainside and for that aim a GPS navigation is not very useful. It would be very good if it is possible to realize a permanent ground distance of two meters.
I hope that I was able to make my questions clear. If I go wrong with any of my thoughts, please feel free to correct me.
Thank you for your answers in advance.
Greetz
TheBone