bebop_autonomy - ROS Driver for Parrot Bebop Drone (quadrocopter) 1.0 & 2.0¶
bebop_autonomy is a ROS driver for Parrot Bebop 1.0 and 2.0 drones (quadrocopters), based on Parrot’s official ARDroneSDK3. This driver has been developed in Autonomy Lab of Simon Fraser University by Mani Monajjemi and other contributers (List of Contributers). This software is maintained by Sepehr MohaimenianPour (AutonomyLab, Simon Fraser University), Thomas Bamford (Dynamic Systems Lab, University of Toronto) and Tobias Naegeli (Advanced Interactive Technologies Lab, ETH Zürich).
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Features and Roadmap¶
Feature | Status | Notes |
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SDK Version | 3.12.6 | Since v0.7 |
Support for Parrot Bebop 1 | Yes | Tested up to Firmware 3.3 |
Support for Parrot Bebop 2 | Yes | Tested up to Firmware 4.0.6 |
Support for Parrot Disco FPV | No | Not tested (help wanted) |
Core piloting | Yes | |
H264 video decoding | Yes | Enhancement: #1 |
ROS Camera Interface | Yes | |
Nodelet implementation | Yes | |
Publish Bebop states as ROS topics | Yes | |
Dynamically reconfigurable Bebop settings | Yes | Configuring the Drone |
Use parrot_arsdk instead of building ARSDK3 inline | Yes | Since v0.6: #75 |
Bebop In The Loop tests | Yes | Tests |
Joystick teleop demo | Yes | sec-pilot-teleop |
TF Publisher | Yes | Since v0.5 (TF) |
Odometry Publisher | Yes | Since v0.5 (Odometery) |
Provide ROS API for on-board picture/video recording | Yes | Since v0.4.1 (Take on-board Snapshot) |
GPS Support | Yes | Since v0.6 (GPS) |
Support for 720p streaming | Yes | Since v0.6 |
Mavlink Support | No | |
Binary Release | No | |
Support for Parrot Sky Controller | No |