Onboard computer communication ROS package
Posted: Thu May 05, 2022 8:26 pm
Hi everyone,
I am looking into using a Crazyflie flight controller together with a BigQuad deck. The drone is planned to have an onboard computer, sending commands to the Crazyflie.
From the documentation of cflib, I can see that setting up UART communication is possible, and an example with Raspberry Pi is given here: https://www.bitcraze.io/documentation/r ... munication.
Has Bitcraze or some third party created a ROS-wrapper for this kind of communication with UART via cflib-python? To me it seems that the existing ROS packages for Crazyflie 2.X all communicate directly with the flightcontroller via the radios and not via UART.
The setup is much like using a Pixhawk where MAVROS would be used to read e.g. IMU data from the flightcontroller and also send commands to the flightcontroller. So put in another way - is there something like MAVROS for Crazyflie out there?
I am interested in this as we have a couple of Crazyflie flightcontrollers, using them currently only for a course.
Kind regards
Peter Karstensen
I am looking into using a Crazyflie flight controller together with a BigQuad deck. The drone is planned to have an onboard computer, sending commands to the Crazyflie.
From the documentation of cflib, I can see that setting up UART communication is possible, and an example with Raspberry Pi is given here: https://www.bitcraze.io/documentation/r ... munication.
Has Bitcraze or some third party created a ROS-wrapper for this kind of communication with UART via cflib-python? To me it seems that the existing ROS packages for Crazyflie 2.X all communicate directly with the flightcontroller via the radios and not via UART.
The setup is much like using a Pixhawk where MAVROS would be used to read e.g. IMU data from the flightcontroller and also send commands to the flightcontroller. So put in another way - is there something like MAVROS for Crazyflie out there?
I am interested in this as we have a couple of Crazyflie flightcontrollers, using them currently only for a course.
Kind regards
Peter Karstensen