Using ROS with UAVs

The ROS wiki currently contains a growing list of ROS UAVs. These UAVs are as follows:

  • AscTec Pelican and Hummingbird Quadrotors
  • Berkeley's STARMAC
  • Bitcraze Crazyflie
  • DJI Matrice 100 Onboard SDK ROS support
  • Erle-copter
  • ETH sFly
  • Lily Camera/Quadrotor
  • Parrot AR.Drone
  • Parrot Bebop
  • Penn's AscTec Hummingbird Quadrotors
  • PIXHAWK MAVs
  • Skybotix CoaX Helicopter

View the list at http://wiki.ros.org/Robots#UAVs in the future for additions to this list and the website http://www.ros.org/news/robots/uavs/ to get the latest ROS UAV news.

The preceding list contains quadrotors except for the Skybotix Helicopter. A number of universities have adopted using the AscTec Hummingbird as their ROS UAV of choice. For this book, we present a simulator called Hector ...

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