Development of a low-cost avionics platform for small-scale model airplanes

Abstract

Small-scale model airplanes are used in scientific research in the aircraft systems field. However, there are few options for low-cost avionics platforms that satisfy performance requirements to be used in research. Here is developed and analyzed a low-cost avionics platform for a small-scale model airplane using the flight controller Pixhawk 1 with the PX4 flight stack supported by MATLAB/Simulink embedded software development tools and embedded C++programming.