At my previous post, I have presented the willing of Erle Robotics of programming APM based vehicles using blocks.
Notice that the official name of this tool has changed to Robot Blockly, in order to meet OSRF naming criterium.
Today I want to show a small example of how this new tool can move an APM based Rover. In this example, I have used a block that controls the direction and throttle of the rover. This block has overwrite the output channel 1 and 3, using a MAVROS service.
This new functionality comes integrated in our latest product, Erle-Brain 2. You could find it in the image called "blanco", which is based on Debian Jessie.
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Continuing our work in simplifying the use of drones and robots for any public, we are delighted to announce that we have started adding support for APM based vehicles in ROSimple. Due to the simplicity that APMrover offers comparing to the other vehicles, we have started adding blocks for programming it.
In order to command the drone, ROSimple uses MAVROS to comunicate with APM. ROSimple generates a Python script to execute the different commands that the users wants to do. Here you have a small example of how it works:
Recently, at Erle-Robotics, we have launched a crowdfunding campaign in order to offer our latest drone: Erle-Spider.
As DIY community, lots of us enjoys building, out of scratch, new gadgets/robots/drones. and that's why the campaign offers a DIY kit between the perks. For those who are interested, you can watch the whole assembly process in the next video:
Regards,
Iñigo
Hello everyone,
Erle Robotics is happy to announce that has been selected by RoboHub as one of the 30 most promising robotic startup worldwide. But that's not all, now we are competing to be one of the top 10.
The votation for "Readers Pick" is open and the 3rd round polling takes until 1st of September, in case anyone is interested taking active part.
We are delighted to see how a company that uses so many open technologies (APM, ROS, BeagleBone Black, Linux, Pixhawk Fire Cape,..) can reach so high.
Hi this is Iñigo, one the of the engineers behind Erle-Robotics. I would like to share with you that we have integrated ubleds in our Erle-Brain.
Thanks to this, users can easily identify autopilot's state. We have differentiate few ones:
- Blinking blue to signal that autopilot is initializing.
- Blinking red to indicate that autopilot is disarmed.
- When autopilot is armed with GPS signal, the status LEDs turns into blue color.
- Finally, when autopilot is armed without GPS signal, the status leds, switches between blue and green colors.
Check our yesterdays flight:
For more info, check the post in our website.
Cheers!
