Can I Pilot or upload waypoints in pixhawk flighter controller drone using Matlab directly using RFD900X telemetry without QgroundControl as in future i will work on swarm?

Can I Pilot or upload waypoints in pixhawk flighter controller drone using Matlab directly using RFD900X telemetry without QgroundControl as in future i will work on swarm drones. Is it possible to do this without companion computer(jetson nano, raspberry Pi). Can you guide me what i need to do in both cases with jetson or without.

Answer 1

[Arun Mathamkode]

You need to implement the MAVLink mission protocol in MATLAB or Simulink to upload mission to the flight controller. There is an example showing how to implement mission protocol to read the mission from the QGC in Simulink using MAVLink serializer deserializer blocks. You can refer this and implement the mission protocol to send the mission to the autopilot. You might need to use the serial block in Simulink or serialport API to send the MAVlink data over telemetry.