Titan AlphaPilot Racer
Quad_Racer
This package named quad_racer is a C++ ROS node which generates rateThrust messages to control quadcopters.
Rostopics Published
/uav/input/rateThrust
Requirements
This is a ROS package and expects ROS to be installed on the host machine running the quad_racer node.
Setup
Follow the steps provided below to download, build and launch the source code for quad_racer
cd ~/catkin_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/alphapilotaichallenge/quad_racer.git
cd ..
catkin build
source devel/setup.bash
roslaunch quad_racer quad_racer_flightgoggles.launch ignore_collisions:=1 use_external_renderer:=1
Steps to launch quad_racer after a Ubuntu reboot
rosrun flightgoggles FlightGoggles.x86_64
cd catkin_ws/
cd src/quad_racer/
git pull
cd ../..
catkin build
source devel/setup.bash
roslaunch quad_racer quad_racer_flightgoggles.launch ignore_collisions:=1 use_external_renderer:=1
To upload the latest changes (Remember to always pull the latest changes before executing these instructions)
git add -A
git commit -m "<your-comment-on-the-commit>"
git push origin master
To download latest changes to flightgoggles and recompile
cd ~/catkin_ws/
cd src/flightgoggles
git pull origin master
cd ../
wstool update
cd ../
catkin clean
catkin build
Author
Bhavyansh Mishra