Active drag system

Active Drag System (ADS)

This is the main codebase for Rocketry at Virginia Tech's Active Drag System, also known colloquially as the ADS, for the 2023-2024 competition year. It runs primarily on a Raspberry Pi Pico, and its goal is to autonomously control the ADS' deployment during flight.

Eigen Library, cmake, and arm-none-eabi-gcc tooling required for successful build.

Clone

Note: You must initialize the git submodules prior to utilizing CMake for a proper build.

git clone https://github.com/RocketryVT/active-drag-system.git
cd active-drag-system/
git submodule update --init --recursive

Build (Linux)

cmake -B build
cmake --build build

In the event that your preferred IDE has trouble locating header files and/or is displaying incorrect errors, pass -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=true to the first CMake command above. Similarly, if you wish to compile the additional tools (e.g. reading flash, calibrating the IMU, etc.), pass -DCOMPILE_TOOLS=true to the first CMake command above as well.

Build (Windows)

Enable WSL2 in windows Install Ubuntu 22 LTS from Windows Store

sudo apt update && upgrade
sudo apt install build-essential cmake gcc-arm-none-eabi

Then to actually build:

cmake -B build
cmake --build build

Build Alternative (Mac)

brew install arm-none-eabi-gcc

To check if installed correctly run:

ls /opt/homebrew/bin | grep "none"

you should see a list including but not limited to:

arm-none-eabi-gcc
arm-none-eabi-g++

Next:

cmake -B build
cmake --build build

Binary files should be located in build/src/*.uf2 after a successful build.