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Hi everyone,

I'm working on autonomous trajectory tracking with the Crazyflie 2.0 and I have to use a Qualisys motion capture system for the localization. Also, I would like to use the Mellinger controller already implemented in the firmware, but as far as I know it requires external measurements of position.

Therefore, I'm wondering what is the recommended way to send MoCap data from Qualisys to the drone, through the Crazyradio. Is there some code already available? Can you give me some hints or example on how to make this work?

Thank you very much for your help,

Marco.

If you use ROS, you can take a look at the Crazyswarm, which supports Qualisys: https://crazyswarm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

The Mellinger controller does not require you to use a mocap. It works with the flow-deck, UWB, or lighthouse as well.

Hi Wolfgang,

thanks for the reply. The MoCap is the only tool that I have, therefore it's not really a choice for me. Up to now I managed to test hovering and waypoint following with the Crazyflie 2.0 and Qualisys thanks to the crazyflie_ros package. As far as I know, you are the maintainer of that package and the Crazyswarm project is built upon that as well. For a single Crazyflie, do you still recommend to make use of Crazyswarm or to go back to the original crazyflie_ros?

Thank you in advance,

Marco.