Flight controllers for multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles

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The article considers the creation of flight controllers based on open source software for multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that meet reliability requirements and provide a high degree of flexibility.

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A. Golubkov

ООО «Радиокомп»

Author for correspondence.
Email: andrew@radiocomp.ru

начальник отдела перспективных разработок

Russian Federation

S. Melyukov

ФГБОУ ВО «Московский авиационный институт (национальный исследовательский университет)»; ООО «Радиокомп»

Email: melyukov.1@mail.ru

кафедра «Системы автоматического и интеллектуального управления», аспирант; инженер-программист

Russian Federation

A. Fomichev

ФГБОУ ВО «Московский авиационный институт (национальный исследовательский университет)»

Email: fomichevav@mai.ru

к.т.н., кафедра «Системы автоматического и интеллектуального управления», доцент

Russian Federation

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4. Fig. 3. Flight controllers RK-405 (a) and RK-743 (b)

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