How to publish Ardupilot information to ROS topic

I'm trying to publish my Ardupilot's state information over serial (usb or xbee) to my computer running a ROS node listening to those serial messages and publishing the corresponding topic.

I am currently running the latest ardupilot software and mavlink-ros from here: https://github.com/pixhawk/mavlink-ros-pkg

Can anyone help me configure the ardupilot to send the appropriate mavlink messages?
Thanks!

Tags: ROS, ardupilot, mavlink, mavlink-ros, publish

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3D RoboticsPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on June 28, 2011 at 8:40am
Patrick: There are a few other people here also working on ROS implementation, so I've started a ROS users group to coordinate these efforts (anybody can join it).
http://diydrones.com/group/rosusergroup

I'll invite the others to join it to work with you. We can appoint one member to be a liaison to the Dev Team to integrate code into the official APM/AC2 branch.
Permalink Reply by Patrick Hammer on June 28, 2011 at 8:45am
Okay great. I think it will be very helpful to get the Ardupilot ROS users together. Should I re-publish my discussion in the virgin group?

3D RoboticsPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on June 28, 2011 at 8:57am
Yes, please do

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