XTDrone/README.en.md

# XTDrone

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### Description

XTDrone is a UAV simulation platform based on PX4, ROS and Gazebo. XTDrone supports mulitrotors (including quadrotors and hexarotors), fixed wings, VTOLs (including quadplanes, tailsitters and tiltrotors) and other unmanned equipment (such as UGVs, USVs and robotic arms). It's convenient to deploy the algorithm to real UAVs after testing and debugging on the simulation platform.

<img src="./images/vehicles.png" width="640"  /> 

Architecture for single vehicle simulation is shown as the below figure.  For more details, please see the paper

K. Xiao, S. Tan, G. Wang, X. An, X. Wang and X. Wang, "XTDrone: A Customizable Multi-rotor UAVs Simulation Platform," 2020 4th International Conference on Robotics and Automation Sciences (ICRAS), 2020, pp. 55-61, doi: 10.1109/ICRAS49812.2020.9134922.

ArXiv preprint **[ arXiv:2003.09700](https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09700)** (2020)

<img src="./images/architecture_1.png" width="640" height="480" />  

Architecture for multiple vehicle simulation is shown as the below figure.  For more details, please see the paper

K. Xiao, L. Ma, S. Tan, Y. Cong, X. Wang: Implementation of UAV Coordination Based on a Hierarchical Multi-UAV Simulation Platform. arXiv preprint **[ arXiv:2005.01125](https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01125)** (2020)

If you use XTDrone for your academic research, please cite our related papers. 

<img src="./images/architecture_2.png" width="640" />  

Developers can quickly verify algorithms with XTDrone, such as:

Stereo SLAM

<img src="./images/vslam.gif" width="640" height="360" /> 

Visual Inertial Navigation

<img src="./images/vio.gif" width="640" height="360" />  

Visual Dense Reconstruction

<img src="./images/dense_reconstruction.gif" width="640" height="360" /> 

2D Laser SLAM

<img src="./images/laser_slam_2d.gif" width="640" height="360" /> 

3D Laser SLAM

<img src="./images/laser_slam_3d.gif" width="640" height="360"/>  

2D Motion Planning

<img src="./images/2d_motion_planning.gif" width="640" height="360" />  

3D Motion Planning

<img src="./images/3d_motion_planning.gif" width="640" height="360" /> 

Object Detection and Tracking

<img src="./images/human_tracking.gif" width="640" height="360" /> 

Formation

<img src="./images/formation_1.gif" width="640" height="360" />  

<img src="./images/formation_2.gif" width="640" height="360" />  

Multi-UAV Precision Landing

<img src="./images/multi_precision_landing.gif" width="640" height="360" />  

Fixed wing

<img src="./images/planes.gif" width="640" height="360" />  

VTOL

<img src="./images/vtols.gif" width="640" height="360" />  

UGV

<img src="./images/ugv.gif" width="640" height="360" />  

USV

<img src="./images/usv.gif" width="640" height="360" />  


### User manual

 [XTDrone Manual](https://www.yuque.com/xtdrone/manual_en)

### Developing Team

- Founders: Kun Xiao, Shaochang Tan
- Adviser: Xiangke Wang
- Developers: Kun Xiao, Shaochang Tan, Guanzheng Wang, Lan Ma, Qipeng Wang, Xinyu Hu, Ruoqiao Guan, Wenxin Hu,  Feng Yi, Jiarun Yan, Yi Bao, Keyan Chen, Gao Chen

### Contributers

Sincerely thank you for your contribution to XTDrone.

Changhao Sun, Ying Nie, Fanjie Kong, Chaoran Li, Xudong Li, Zihan Lin, Yao He

### Business cooperation

For commercial inquiries, please contact Kun Xiao <robin_shaun@foxmail.com>.