In this program, you’ll learn from world-class experts and write aircraft-ready code. You’ll master controls, planning, estimation, and more. In an increasingly congested world, flying cars look to the skies to provide smart transportation solutions that benefit us all.
Master job-ready autonomous flight software engineering skills as you tackle advanced challenges, write real code for real aircraft, and develop a systems understanding of the Flying Car full-stack.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learn about our quadrotor test platform, work in our custom simulator, and build your first project—getting a quadrotor to take-off and fly around a backyard!
- 3D Motion Planning
- Optimize 2D solutions using waypoints, then scale solutions to 3D problems. Apply these skills by autonomously navigating your drone through a dense urban environment.
- Controls
- Moving a flying vehicle requires determining appropriate low-level motor controls. Here, you’ll build a nonlinear cascaded controller for your drone system.
- Estimation
- Utilize sensor fusion and filtering. Design an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) to estimate attitude and position from IMU and GPS data of a flying robot.
- [Optional] Fixed-Wing Aircraft
- Learn the dynamics of fixed-wing flight and apply what you’ve learned by writing code to control a fixed-wing aircraft in simulation.
Taught by
Nicholas Roy, Angela Schoellig, Sebastian Thrun, Raffaello D’Andrea, Sergei Lupashin, Jake Lussier, Andy Brown, Chris K., Raoul N., Joseph D., Andrija E., Jason S. and Hussain A.
