SERIAL MAVLINK to ROS BRIDGE This ROS node allows to send and receive MAVLINK packets through a serial interface. For help, please visit http://github.com/mavlink/mavlink_ros/issues MAVLINK is documented at: http://qgroundcontrol.org/mavlink/ ROS is documented at: http://ros.org ================================================================================ INSTALLATION: ================================================================================ This ROS node depends on the glib library. Install it with: sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev # Checkout the source code (if you don't want to fork on github.com use git@github.com:mavlink/mavlink_ros.git) git clone <this repository url> # Add the folder to the ROS package list # LINUX (Ubuntu) gedit ~/.bashrc nano ~/.bashrc # MAC OS subl ~/.bash_profile nano ~/.bash_profile # Add this line (ADJUST THE FOLDER!) export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=~/project_folder/mavlink_ros:$ROS_PACKAGE_PATH # Reload bash rc source ~/.bashrc # Build the package with rosmake rosmake mavlink_ros ================================================================================ USE: ================================================================================ Start the node: rosrun mavlink_ros mavlink_ros_serial -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -b 115200