These packages are used to simulate the flying robot Ardrone in ROS environment using gazebo simulator. Totally they are 4 packages. Their functions are descript as below:
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cvg_sim_gazebo: contains object models, sensor models, quadrocopter models, flying environment information and individual launch files for each objects and pure environment without any other objects.
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cvg_sim_gazebo_plugins: contains gazebo plugins for the quadrocopter model. quadrotor_simple_controller is used to control the robot motion and deliver navigation information, such as: /ardrone/navdata. Others are plugins for sensors in the quadrocopter, such as: IMU sensor, sonar sensor, GPS sensor.
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message_to_tf: is a package used to create a ros node, which transfers the ros topic /ground_truth/state to a /tf topic.
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cvg_sim_msgs: contains message forms for the simulator.
Some packages are based on the tu-darmstadt-ros-pkg by Stefan Kohlbrecher, TU Darmstadt.
This package depends on ardrone_autonomy package and gazebo7 so install these first.
How to install the simulator:
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Install gazebo7 and ardrone_autonomy package
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Create a workspace for the simulator
mkdir -p ~/ardrone_simulator/src cd ~/ardrone_simulator/src catkin_init_workspace
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Download package
git clone https://github.com/iolyp/ardrone_simulator_gazebo7
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Build the simulator
cd .. catkin_make
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Source the environment
source devel/setup.bash
How to run a simulation:
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Run a simulation by executing a launch file in cvg_sim_gazebo package:
roslaunch cvg_sim_gazebo ardrone_testworld.launch
How to run a simulation using ar_track_alvar tags:
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Move the contents of ~/ardrone_simulator/src/cvg_sim_gazebo/meshes/ar_track_alvar_tags/ to ~/.gazebo/models
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Run simulation
roslaunch cvg_sim_gazebo ar_tag.launch