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 getting Arducopters to fly well in a Vicon optical tracking range, probably through the use of the MANUAL_CONTROL (#69) message in MAVLink.
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I found I could either hack together a mavlink solution using http://www.ros.org/wiki/mavlink-ros-pkg or integrate http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosserial into APM. I decided I would prefer the latter so I'm currently trying to do that. Not much time right now so I have not made strong progress.
If I get something presentable together I'll share it with the group. Keep in touch Garry!