Fixedwing Gazebo

Gazebo models of student designed mini fixedwing aircraft inspired by Flite Test Mighty Minis. Created as part of Purdue AAE 451 (Aicraft Design), Spring 2020.

Build

mkdir -p ~/catkin/src
cd ~/catkin/src
git clone https://github.com/jgoppert/fixedwing_gazebo.git
git clone --recursive --branch sitl_twin https://github.com/jgoppert/Firmware.git px4
ln -s px4/Tools/sitl_gazebo mavlink_sitl_gazebo
cd ~/catkin
catkin init
catkin build
. ./devel/setup.bash

Launch

Flyable Vehicles

• miniscout
• mini_fixedwing_01
• mini_fixedwing_02
• mini_fixedwing_03
• mini_fixedwing_04
• mini_fixedwing_05
• mini_fixedwing_06
• mini_fixedwing_07
• mini_fixedwing_08
• mini_fixedwing_09
• mini_fixedwing_10
• mini_fixedwing_11
• mini_fixedwing_12
• mini_fixedwing_13
• mini_fixedwing_14

Most vehicles are single engine and can be run with:

roslaunch fixedwing_gazebo px4.launch vehicle:=mini_fixedwing_01

For the twin engine (mini_fixedwing_04), we will need to tell it to use the twin engine startup script.

roslaunch fixedwing_gazebo px4.launch vehicle:=mini_fixedwing_04 script:=plane_twin

Analyzing Flight Logs

There are flight logs in the data directory for each vehicle. You can download the .ulg files to your computer, then upload them to: https://review.px4.io/