Changelog and Release History¶

Changelog for package bebop_driver¶

Update Parrot SDK to 3.7.5 (from 3.6) - Remove upstream XML hash from .msg files to minmize msg type changes from now on - New Topic and Message type for DefaultCameraOrientation
Add cmd_vel timeout for safety - The driver now sends stop command if no new cmd_vel is received within a pre-defined timeout period. This timeout is set to 0.1s by default and can be changed via cmd_vel_timeout parameter.
Fix right-jand rule bug of angular.z @jacobperron (fixes #26)
Patch ARSDK to fix Sanselan’s old URL - This is temporary and must be reverted when this is fixed upstream. Issue reported here: Parrot-Developers/ARSDKBuildUtils#61
Add bebop ip address as ROS parameter (fixes #19) - (Param name: bebop_ip, default value: 192.168.42.1)
Fix CameraInfo issues (closes #10) - Fix bugs in loading camera calibration data and update the tests - Add a sample calibration file for bebop camera: bebop_camera_calib.yaml - Load camera calibration file by default in both node/nodelet launch files
Remove redundant bebop.launch file (closes #11)
Fix coordinate system inconsistencies (fixes #13) - Fix cmd_vel.linear.y sign error - Use attitude values in tests instead of velocities
Contributors: Anup, Mani Monajjemi, Jacob Perron

Renamed package to bebop_driver
Built against ARSDK3_version_3_6
bebop_autonomy is now a metapackage - bebop_autonomy is the ROS metapackage name - Rename bebop_autonomy package to bebop_driver - Rename bebop_autonomy_msgs to bebop_msgs
Contributors: Mani Monajjemi

Add support for downloading and building ARDroneSDK3 during the build process
Add flattrim, flip and navigatehome interfaces
Add forward declaration to classes where it is possible
Major bug fixes and improvements - Dynamic Reconfigure: Convert all two state int_t values to enum - Fix the private nodehandle bugs in State and Settings handlers - Fix the data flow of Settings between rosparam and dynamic reconfigure and bebop - Fix SDK enum types in C (I32 instead of U8) - Add Start/Stop streaming to Bebop interface class
Add bebop_nodelet launch with image_view
Organized DynR configs into groups + Moved the autogeneration report to a seperated file + build speed improvements
Dynamically reconfigurable Bebop settings
Add support to enable publishing of a specific State
Add support to propogate states from bebop to ROS
Auto-generated .msg and .h files based on libARCommands XML files
New threading model for data retreival and publishing - Nodelet now manages its own thread to receive frames from Bebop - GetFrame() function abstracts all sync to access the rgb frame - All subscribers send commands to the Bebop in their callbacks
Integreate ARSAL logs into ROS_LOG - Fix sync issues between frame grabber and publisher
Improve video decode/publish pipeline - Adopt frame decoding from official examples - Thread safe access to raw frame ptr - Synchronised frame decoding and publishing
Proof of concept ROS driver for bebop drone
Contributors: Mani Monajjemi