ros_pyparrot

ROS Driver for pyparrot (Work in progress)

This driver was created to be used along with Dr. Amy McGovern's pyparrot driver. This project contains a simple interface to control the position of a supported Parrot vehicle through a ROS environment.

Credit

If you find this code useful, please consider to cite us as:

BibTeX:

@INPROCEEDINGS{9024528,
  author={I. {Rubio Scola} and G. A. {Guijarro Reyes} and L. R. {Garcia Carrillo} and J. {Hespanha} and J. {Xie}},
  booktitle={2019 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)}, 
  title={Translational Model Identification and Robust Control for the Parrot Mambo UAS Multicopter}, 
  year={2019},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={1-6},
  doi={10.1109/GCWkshps45667.2019.9024528}}

Current supported vehicles

• Mambo

Current features

• Basic control using the ROS environment
• Cannon topic provided (Mambo)
• Auto take-off topic provided
• Up to 7 vehicles can be controlled by one bluetooth 4.0 controller
• Launch files to fly multiple vehicles are provided

Requirements

• ROS Melodic
• Bluetooth 4.0 controller
• Python 3
• Bluepy pip3 install bluepy
• ROSPKG pip3 install rospkg
• Zeroconf pip3 install zeroconf
• pyparrot pip3 install pyparrot

Installation

• Use the following command in your preferred catkin workspace

$ git clone https://github.com/TOTON95/ros_pyparrot.git

• Build it

$ catkin_make

Usage

• In the root directory of your preferred catkin workspace run

$ source devel\setup.bash

• Launch one of the files

$ roslaunch ros_pyparrot <name_of_desired_launch_file>

Disclaimer

Use the driver at your own risk, the creators of this code are NOT responsible in any way in case of accidents or damage, against users and/or objects.