Since CES 2010, we’ve been keeping a close eye on Parrot’s AR. Drone as the company is always offering improvements to the smartphone-controlled quadricopter. This year seems to be another big year for the AR. Drone as Parrot is announcing a number of improvements to this year’s model that will get owners of last year’s model dying to get the latest and greatest AR. Drone.This year’s AR. Drone will include a GPS Flight Recorder that includes 4GB flash memory that records its flying parameters that will enable the Drone’s flights to be visualized in 3D on the AR. Drone’s Academy map. A Director Mode will also be available that will allow AR. Drone owners to shoot the perfect videos by programing pre-registered and automatic movements.A new high-density battery offering 50 percent additional flying time will also be available this year that takes the AR. Drone’s flight time to a total of 18 minutes.The last update are two games: AR.Race2.0 is a customizable solo or multiplayer race game while AR.

Rescue2.0 will be an adventure game that uses augmented reality. Both games will be able to connect to AR.Drone Academy for pilots to compare their scores with other members.Read more about ar drone, CES, CES 2013 and Parrot. Just like waiting for a bus, not one but two stories about the AR.drone 2.0 come along at once. Using the new 4GB  flight recorder announced last week at CES. A USB GPS and memory in a box device. Drone 2.0 can now fly predefined paths. According to a video released by Parrot  the ground control station QGroundControl is used to facilitate this. No word on a price or release date yet. Drone is turning into the little drone that can. According to Parrot they have sold over 500,000 now should just 1% of those users need autonomous flight that’s 5000 people. Sure it needs to be calm and the camera is not the very best but its a jolly good start for the sub $500 prosumer UA market. Bring on the 3.0…. Cough FAA and 30,000 users in the USA. That sounds more and more like the disputed IBM computer numbers quote

“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” 2.1.1. GPS support, update 2.2.2. Ivy / Mavlink / ROS bridging I am putting this here because it is a piece of information i have been looking for myself and in the hope it might be useful for someoneparrot ar drone hmv ukThe Parrot ARDrone is a cheap, stable, and readily availablear drone ebay kleinanzeigenWanting to use it for robotics experiments goingar drone 2 ios 5 beyond what can be done with the apps, you might wonder whichparrot drone 2 parts framework to pick to base your own development on. ar drone parts montreal

Below I list three existing and well developed frameworks and briefly enumerate the See also our lab's robot doucmentation at https://wikis.hu-berlin.de/koro/AR_Drone There is a ROS driver for the ARDrone, which is, quoting the source,ar drone parts list "ardroneautonomy" is a ROS driver for Parrot AR-DroneThis driver is based on official AR-Drone SDK version 2.0 and supports both AR-Drone 1.0 and 2.0. It supports both ARDrone versions and getting the drone into the air consists mostly in installing the ros-DISTRO-ardrone-autonomy .deb on an Ubuntu base (12.04/groovy, 13.10/hydro, 14.04/indigo) and issuing aThere is a nice tutorial by Mike Hamer that basically explains all necessary steps, such as or alternatively use more slightly more involved stuff These are from the code coming with the above mentioned tutorial, also rendering the drone's video feed in a ROS window.

Being based on the SDK, ROS communicates with the default parrotIn the default configuration this results in a bit of aThere's lots of parameters settable via ROS params but i haven't played with that. Thanks to Mani Monajjemi's work, support for the Parrot Flight Recorder GPS module has been enabled. The functionality is in the gps-waypoint branch, install instructions are in the docs at I briefly tested install and ran the ardronedriver with "enablenavdatagps:=True", the data seems to be coming in fine. test the actual waypoint navigation (pending). ROS also seems to suffer from the stuck magnetometer problems resulting in a message from the driver like: "Something seems to be wrong with the magnetometer (small values)." Paparazzi is a well known and mature autonmous flight environment. recent addition makes it possible to operate the ARDrone from withinThere are two ways to do it, using either SDK based control or uploading the native ppz firmware for onboard

Only ardrone\raw worked for me. Using raw mode, you loose visual stabilization but there is a gstreamer based video framework and some example gst apps that can be used to do vision basedgstreamer is a modular video processing and streaming suite and operates with (in my experience) quite low latency. Configuring ATT mode ("normal" attitude control mode) for use with a joystick (e.g. gamepad) make it easier later on. I used a PS3 gamepad Getting the right hardware accelerates the progress of things, ublox GPS seems to be a good choice (used drotek's USB ready NEO6-MIt seems this module needs the cdc-acm.ko driver which I set up Then you need to calibrate the magnetometer. How to do that is described in the ppz wiki. After connecting the GPS, calibrating the Mag and having prepared the flight environment, go outside, wait for the fix, adjust your flight plan and try takeoff, standby, p1, go p2, Update : thanks to several investigative

minds , this can be fixed by resetting the navboard via GPIO 177 when the values stall. There is a problem with the magnetometer which sometimes gets stuck, not sending data anymore. This results in the GPS navigation failingTry to emergency land and restart. several successful flights though, you just need to watch behaviour diligently or fix the problem. In general, the experience is a teaser for a real paparazzi system. Ivy / Mavlink / ROS bridging There are several ways for bridging the ivy-based Paparazzi communications into Mavlink or ROS: There is an ivy/ros bridge available here at that yet and it seems it needs to be updated for use with hydro and There is a ground agent for that purpose on the mavlink github /mavlink/mavlink-ivy-interface (by way of There is an ivy-bridge module in our mavhub framework but it has been a while that i have used this. You can operate the drone from qgroundcontrol.