Getting Video feed from ARDRONE using openCV in ROS

Question

I would like to program a controller for the ARDRONE 2.0 in ROS using openCV. Can anyone help me with what library/code to use to get video feed from the drone to process in openCV and pass control commands to the drone from openCV using ROS.

thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You will have to first become familiar with ROS I would suggest following the basic tutorials to get you started.

http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials

After that you can install ardrone_autonomy package which has everything you need to set up your AR-Drone with ROS. Including the AR-Drone camera drivers you need to use with OpenCv.

https://github.com/AutonomyLab/ardrone_autonomy

After that you can just write an Opencv function, implement it as a ROS node and have that node subscribe to the /ardrone/image_raw topic and publish control commands back to the AR-Drone