I'm leading a project to develop a completely open source system, which runs on ROS, for deploying artificial intelligence and computer vision on a drone. We are trying to make the system as general purpose as possible. We are getting started with a
Read more…FlytOS is a framework for building high-level drone applications, such as, aerial delivery, precision agriculture, surveys, photography, industrial inspections, disaster management.
It is built on ROS (Robot Operating System) and Linux, making it an i
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I am working in a research lab that has a full motion-capture system. I was curious if anyone knew a way to send the vehicles GPS location over mavlink through roscopter. I have roscopter working, but instead of using an offboard compute
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I am pleased to announce a Linux autopilot to comes powered by ROS. As shared in the main thread, Erle-brain is sold at 269 € and puts together a BeagleBone Black (rev. C) and the PixHawk Fire Cape in a single package that weights about 7
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I would like to announce a new python script to Generate ROS messages/topics/node/package from a mavlink message definition file.
This python packages enable us to control a Robot /UAV using Mavlink protocol from a ROS environment.
Please give i
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I started with the roscopter to connect my pixhawk to ROS.
I use the rosbuild version: https://code.google.com/p/roscopter/
Everything is working fine with making my own Pixhawk firmware and roscopter communication, but now I am trying to a
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I am trying to use mavlink_ros to communicate with APM 2.6 . I can successfully install mavlink_ros using rosmake following the instructions on github and run the mavlink_ros_serial. I am trying publish messages to "/mavlink/to" topic in my cpp pr
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I am looking at a possible implementation of an autonomous quadcopter using an onboard Beagleboard xm(with ROS). THe MAVlink can be used as the primary protocol here via a USB connection b/w the beagle and APM2.6.
I do understand that, this renders
Read more…Hi all, I'm working on sending GPS data to my APM using a SLAM algorithm and am stuck. I soldered between pins 2 and 3 on the GPS and have it hooked up to the 4-pin UART1 (not the DF13 plug). So far I am just sending these static messages at 38400
Read more…Hi all, not really a question, just wanted to fill you in a little. After some work using Yogesh's original roscopter code and modifying it heavily (here's a link) I am working on my next project, using a SBC along with an APM to perform indoor navi
Read more…Hello everyone i am new to this group, and i am writing because I have a problem with the interface for the ROS arducopter and also wanted to better understand the things that I am not clear on this subject.
I'm writing my graduation thesis, and I'm w
Read more…All - I thought I would post on here about the project I recently finished. This was a project for my university. The goal for this project was to do some form of tracking with the kinect using ROS and send output commands to the APM via MAVLink.
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I'm currently working on a multi-robotic experiment which uses ROS. For this matter we need to get telemetry data from an APM and sending waypoint and loiter commands using ROS. I've been trying to use the mavlink_ros package (see link at
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I'm studying the viability of arducopter drones (quads or hexas) for research purposes at my lab. I've been reading about it and I have some final questions left. I hope some of you can clarify my doubts!
The first goal is to have autonomous ope
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i am trying to understand how does it work mavlink_ros . There are two topic, /fromMAVLINK and /toMAVLINK.
From the /fromMAVLINK topic i received information about: seq, stamp, secs, nsecs, frame_id, len, seq, sysid, compid, msgid, fromlcm, pay
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I have started working on ROS interface for arducopter.
Currently I have a bare-bones interface working. You can get some sensor data, and control the arducopter by overriding the RC commands.
get it here:
http://code.google.com/p/roscopter/
Enjoy
Read more…Currently, we have a fully operational ROS simulation so that we can test collision avoidance algorithms on it. Information describing our current system is here. Anyway, let me get to what I am trying to achieve this summer. I intend to use the c
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I've been learning ROS/Gazebo/Stage for a little bit and wanted to graduate to building an actual robot. The Arducopter looks like a good solution which appears to be ROS compatible. If I bought an Arducopter today, what do I need to do to have it
Read more…In some of the ROS stacks there are tools for mapping, sparse bundle block adjustments (SBA), working with point clouds and more, which I think could be potentially useful with regard to photogrammetry related work. l did download the ROS electric pa
Is there a group working on ROS-APM integration or is everyone more or less developing custom solutions for their problems? I am getting ready to dive into it myself and did not want to duplicate anyone else's work. My particular interest is in get
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