Initial Research Pathway -DJI Flight Control Unit of customized drones

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Emmanuel and I paired up and narrowed down to researching the DJI Flight Control Unit of Customized Drones. Originally we wanted to try the Detect and Avoid (DAA) system, however, we aborted that idea due to the lack of the ecosystem available in the market and decided to narrow it down to something more attainable on the market.


Based on our evaluations, we have determined that the N3 applies only to quadcopter, hexacopter and octocopter designs of drones and it is not a complete plug-and-play system. I ventured into vibration dampening which reduces pilot-induced oscillations and understood from Emmanuel the different in-flight mechanics of a helicopter and a fixed-wing aircraft. 

However, as we developed our reader response,I found out the DJI N3 was not as appealing and pronounced as what DJI marketized

- Leveraged on Gemini to find out comparable flight controllers to DJI N3. "DJI n3 vs other flight controllers"
- Leveraged on Copilot to find the comparison between Pixhawk 6X and CubePilot Orange

(edited on 3/10/24)

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