What is the best way to connect an APM controller to ROS?

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asked 2013-11-01 19:31:11 -0500

Dereck

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updated 2014-01-28 17:18:26 -0500

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I have a few multicopters with an APM controller that I would like to connect to ROS. I want to access the mavlink data via ROS topics. Minimally, I want to have access to sensor data and then publish control topics to the UAV for some semi autonomous indoor fun.

I see there are a few options out there for packages, does anyone out there have recommendations or helpful hints to get started?

Thanks!

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if you find something interesting, let me know, please. i would be very thankful for any hints!

RodBelaFarin ( 2013-11-05 21:26:32 -0500 )edit

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answered 2013-11-06 03:06:03 -0500

tonybaltovski

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Have you looked at roscopter?

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This looks exactly like what I'm looking for. :) Thanks!

Dereck ( 2013-11-06 04:03:15 -0500 )edit

Is roscopter compatible with ros indigo ?

Dushan Eranga ( 2017-03-08 04:37:47 -0500 )edit

Would strongly advice against that, use mavros.

tonybaltovski ( 2017-03-08 09:56:00 -0500 )edit

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answered 2014-01-08 06:34:39 -0500

vooon

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Try my project - mavros (github.com/vooon/mavros). More needs to be done, but much has been done.

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Hi @vooon. Trying to catkin_make my dir with mavros in src folder. Already have mavlink in mavros folder. Gives me: File "../src/mavros/mavlink/pymavlink/generator/mavgen.py", line 14, in <module> from pymavlink.generator import mavparse ImportError: No module named pymavlink.generator Any tip?

TSC ( 2014-06-03 11:56:51 -0500 )edit

1. Use wstool to install (it's automatically downloads all submodules) 2. Try to install pymavlink if error exists after 1.