I'm not looking for answers I'm looking for guidance. I'm doing a University quadcopter project, and I purchased a pixhawk for autonomous flight mode and I will be using mission planner. I'm going to use 5 ultrasonic sensors placed on the drone, that will ultimately, connect to a beaglebone black. I was thinking of writing a python script for the sensors but I'm slightly confused and don't know where to begin.
How do I interrupt the way point mission planner to run my script once the quad copter is too close to an object? I'm not exactly sure how this works.
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Thanks for your reply. And what were you able to do at the end of the project with your drone?
Adam Kutchak said:
BOM.xlsx.pdf
That is just about everything except we didn't use a flir Tau camera, we used some hd webcam
What was your architecture? What kind of drone did you use? Which camera and which onboard computer?
Thanks a lot for your time
Adam Kutchak said:
Can I ask what you did achieve? Im trying to do something similar and any help you could give would be great
Did this ever get completed?
Use DroneKit for that, with an onboard companion computer (RaspberryPi works great). It's uses Python based. You can get the Ultrasonic sensor states with this the VehicleState function.
So I will write the entire mission planning script with this? Or is there a way to interrupt the mission planner, make it move away from an object, then return to the mission planner? I apologize I don't know much about drones, my group decided they wanted to do a drone project.