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Robot Operating System for Flight Monitoring and Control with PX4 – Getting Started

Posted by Mike Isted on May 13, 2018 at 4:30am

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If you have heard of Robot Operating System and want to use it to monitor and control UAV flight, this post will get you started…

More specifically, this post details how to set up a Pixhawk flight controller running PX4 firmware, with a Raspberry Pi3 companion computer running Robot Operating System. This combination gives flexible control over the flight control unit and the ability to integrate a very wide range of features such as depth-sensing cameras and machine learning networks.

If this is of interest, the full post is on my blogsite at https://wp.me/p3ZZr-nX.

Tags: operating, px4, pi, pixhawk, ros, raspberry, robot, system, uav
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  • Mike Isted May 16, 2018 at 11:52pm

    Thanks for the feedback!

    Next post planned within 10 days....

  • Mateusz Sadowski May 16, 2018 at 11:49pm

    Thanks for the post Mike! It seems like a great starting point for anyone looking into offboard control. Please keep it going!

  • Mike Isted May 16, 2018 at 11:58am

    I've already integrated YOLO 3 into my hexacopter for object detection and have had good results combining that with the D435 depthcam.  I want to do some retraining before blogging it.

    Your RL work sounds very interesting!

  • Charles Blouin May 16, 2018 at 10:14am

    That sounds great! I would love to see machine learning posts. I am working with a local university to develop a tutorial on RL + Mocap with the PX4.

  • Mike Isted May 14, 2018 at 12:16pm

    Thanks Charles, my pleasure.

    I'm planning the next blog on monitoring key variables, then will move on to control, probably using set position commands.  The great thing is that we can then start to integrate a variety of sensors to get smarter behaviour.

    Mike

  • Charles Blouin May 14, 2018 at 9:50am

    Thanks for sharing. Great tutorial!

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