droneMsgsROS

This repository are the messages and sevices of the stack: droneMsgsROS.

Table of contents

• Disclaimer
• Packages inside the repository
• Libraries and executables generated by this repository
• Branches
• Repository requirements and dependencies
  • System Requirements and Compatibility
  • Dependencies
    • Additional System Dependencies
    • ROS Dependencies
• Installation Instructions
  • Pre-requirements
  • Installation steps
• Running Instructions
• Documentation
• License
• Related publications and Citing
• More information and videos
• Contributors
  • Authors / Maintainers / Past contributors
  • Contact information
  • New contributors
• Acknowledgments

Disclaimer

You are using this software at your own risk. The authors decline any responsibility for personal injuries and/or property damage.

Some drones supported by this framework ARE NOT TOYS. Even operation by expert users might cause SERIOUS INJURIES to people around. So, please consider flying in a properly screened or isolated flight area.

Packages inside the repository

This repository is formed by a unique package:

• droneMsgsROS.

Libraries and executables generated by this repository

This repository generates:

• Libraries: none
• Executables: none
• ROS Messages.
• ROS Services.

Branches

This repository has the following branches:

• Master: Catkin version of the package.

Repository requirements and dependencies

System Requirements and Compatibility

This package is running under:

• Ubuntu: 12.04 and above
• ROS: Hydro and above with Catkin

This package has been tested under:

• Ubuntu: 12.04, 14.04
• ROS: Hydro, Indigo with Catkin

Dependencies

Additional System Dependencies

This package does not require any additional system requirement.

ROS Dependencies

This package depends on the following ROS packages:

• message_generation & message_runtime
• std_msgs
• sensor_msgs
• geometry_msgs
• std_srvs

Installation Instructions

Please, see installation instructions of the full stack.

Pre-requirements

Please, see installation instructions of the full stack.

Installation steps

Please, see installation instructions of the full stack.

Running Instructions

Please, see running instructions of the full stack.

Documentation

Unfortunately this repository has no more extra documentation.

If this repository gets the interest of the community, we will continue adding information depending on the questions made by its users.

License

All distributed software are subject to the 3-clause BSD license.

Related publications and Citing

We have the following publications related with this package:

Papers that explain the full stack where this package is included:

• J. L. Sanchez-Lopez, J. Pestana, P. de la Puente, R. Suarez-Fernandez, P. Campoy. A System for the Design and Development of Vision-based Multi-robot Quadrotor Swarms. 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’14). Orlando (FL, USA). May 27-30, 2014. Pp: 640-648. DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS.2014.6842308.

Papers that explain the competitions where the Computer Vision Group has participated using the full stack:

1. IMAV 2013

   • J. L. Sanchez-Lopez, J. Pestana, P. de la Puente, A. Carrio, P. Campoy. Visual Quadrotor Swarm for the IMAV 2013 Indoor Competition. Robot 2013: First Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT 2013). Madrid (Spain). Nov. 28-29, 2013. Book title: Robot 2013: First Iberian Robotics Conference. Book subtitle: Advances in intelligent Systems and Computing. Vol. 253. Published year: 2014. Pp: 55-63. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03653-3_5. Print ISBN: 978-3-319-03652-6. Online ISBN: 978-3-319-03653-3. Publisher: Springer International Publishing.
   • J. L. Sanchez-Lopez, J. Pestana, P. de la Puente, P. Campoy. Visual Quadrotor Swarm for IMAV 2013 Indoor Competition. 2013 International Micro Aerial Vehicle Conference and Flight Competition (IMAV 2013). Toulouse (France). September, 17-20, 2013.

2. IARC 2014

   • J. Pestana, J. L. Sanchez-Lopez, R. Suarez-Fernandez, JF Collumeau, P Campoy, J Martin-Cristobal, M Molina, J De Lope, D Maravall. A Vision Based Aerial Robot solution for the IARC 2014 by the Technical University of Madrid. 2014 International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC 2014). Yantai (China). Aug. 3-7, 2014.

Please, don't forget to cite our best paper:

@INPROCEEDINGS{6842308,
  author={Sanchez-Lopez, J.L. and Pestana, J. and de la Puente, P. and Suarez-Fernandez, R. and Campoy, P.},
  booktitle={Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2014 International Conference on},
  title={A system for the design and development of vision-based multi-robot quadrotor swarms},
  year={2014},
  month={May},
  pages={640-648}
}

More information and videos

You can check the group webpage www.vision4uav.eu to find videos or extra information.

Contributors

Authors / Maintainers / Past contributors

List of people that have contributed:

• Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez ([email protected]): Main Author, Maintainaince, Debugging, Testing and Documentation.
• Jesus Pestana Puerta ([email protected]): Maintainaince, Debugging and Testing.
• Adrian Carrio: Testing.
• Ramon Suarez Fernandez: Testing.

Contact information

Questions, suggestions, requests, ... whatever. Feel free to contact me (Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez - [email protected]).

New contributors

You are very welcome to contribute to this repository by opening a pull request via Bitbucket.

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to:

• Computer Vision Group (CVG): www.vision4uav.eu
• Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR): http://www.car.upm-csic.es/
• Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC): http://www.csic.es
• Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM): http://www.upm.es