These plugins allow to visualize data from the drone such as the battery status, the compass, the attitude display information or the flight information. Or even control the drone, for example, you can arm, disarm, takeoff, go to a 3D point (using geometry_msgs/PoseStamped) or land.
| Displays | Panels |
|---|---|
| Battery | Compass and ADI |
| 3D Goal |
You can add the panels using the upper menu: Panels -> Add New Panel:
You can choose in the rviz_aerial_plugins between:
You can choose using the combobox which drone you want to display:
Using this panel you can visualize the current state of the drone. Clicking on the buttons you can arm, disarm, takeoff, land or move to a specific 3D goal.
Add an interactive marker to the display panel and select the topic /drone_goal. Then an interactive marker will appear in the 3D visualizer. You can move this marker and clicking in the Go to button the drone will perform the movement.
The interactive marker allows the user to interact with them by changing their position or rotation, clicking on them or selecting something from a context menu assigned to each marker.
From Display you can add Battery:
This display will shows the current voltage and the number of cells.
