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JimBakker
Hi everybody, new to the forums :) I have a personal dream to build a drone/quadcopter from scratch. I'm aware it's not an easy task, and I've also searched this forum (and Google) for similar threads before posting:
My goal is first simulating a quadcopter before building it, but when looking at the PDF suggested in the second link, I cannot understand most of the symbols found in the document. Quite frankly I'm lost and only guessing certain parts :(
Thank you very much for reading!
- Drone Building
- Building a Quadcopter (links to what seems like a useful PDF)
- One of the links even recommended a book.
- Google search took me to this interesting tutorial as well.
My goal is first simulating a quadcopter before building it, but when looking at the PDF suggested in the second link, I cannot understand most of the symbols found in the document. Quite frankly I'm lost and only guessing certain parts :(
- I'd love to know the minimum knowledge in order to understand this document in particular.
- Is there a site where I can easily find the definition of every Mathematical symbols, other then Wiki and this?
- My Math and physics background is based on 3D game programming. I'm no professional, but I can write my own 3D scenes in modern OpenGL using C++. So I'm able to construct matrices and multiply them in order to create model, view, projection matrices.
I can also give my simulation basic high-school physics: like springs, gravity, etc. But unfortunately, I've learned everything on the Internet in bits and pieces just to get a scene running.
Thank you very much for reading!