A Novel Quadcopter Drone Simulation Platform Based on Mixed Reality

Virtual simulations are characterized by repeatability and the allowance for experimentation and training without real risks. The increasing importance of virtual simulation in teaching and engineering has made it a research hotspot. The main motivation of this paper is the application of mixed reality technology to virtual simulation. A quadcopter drone simulation platform based on mixed reality for the simulation of quadcopter drones is designed in this article. The development of the platform is based on Unity. After the 3D model of the quadcopter drone is created, the file is imported into Unity and used as a prefabricated body. The flight control of this quadcopter drone is based on a discrete kinematics model where MATLAB is used as the controlling end to make the quadcopter drone fly along a reference trajectory. It is proposed in this article to use Vuforia to scan and model the flight environment using its designated 3D modeling equipment, which will reduce the collision blind spots of quadcopter drones during simulated flight. A simulated flight of a quadcopter drone in mixed reality can be realized by deploying the application to HoloLens2 through Visual Studio. This simulation device is portable and provides an immersive experience, but the collision interaction experience of real aircraft flight is not reduced at all, and the risk of damage to real machines can also be reduced.