Ardupilot plugin setup - Aeroclub-IITM/Plugins

Connecting Ardupilot directly to ros

First we need a plugin for direct connection of ros with gazebo.

sudo apt install ros-melodic-gazebo-ros ros-melodic-gazebo-plugins

This following repo contains some world files and it's important to have some world files to be there in your catkin_ws to use with ros.

cd ~/catkin_ws/src

git clone https://github.com/Intelligent-Quads/iq_sim.git

cd ~/catkin_ws

catkin build

source ~/.zshrc

Now to launch gazebo+ros,

roslaunch iq_sim runway.launch

Make changes in your environment and save changes.

For displaying the camera output we can use

rosrun rqt_image_view rqt_image_view (Through rqt)

rosrun image_view image_view image:=<topic name>

For getting live video feed from camera and process it,

To setup darknet_ros for object classification.