- This repo is for Crazyflie's ground control, which acts like a position controller with position as input and desired command(roll, pitch, yaw rate and thrust) as output.
- Original repo could be found at GitHub, Whoning's homepage from ACTLAB in USC.
- Modification is that the original one uses VICON as the Motion Capture System, while in HDR Lab, we use OptiTrack as the Motion Capture Systm, so mainly the modifications lie in that, with additional packages added to handle the communication with Motive, a software installed in the Lab's desktop computer.
- Set up ROS package as given: https://github.com/crigroup/optitrack. (Note: Do git clone in src folder)
- Download the scripts from the Motive_track repository.
- Copy the Rigid_body_publishers.py script and optitrack_pipeline.launch script from the hybrid robotics lab repository to the scripts and launch folder respectively.
- Modify permissions of scripts to executable
- Modify your IP address in the launch file (use ifconfig)
- catkin_make in "ros_ws" dir
- use "roslaunch optitrack Rigid_body_publishers.py iface=" read data from the Motive track.
- rostopic echo /optitrack/rigid_bodies
- One possible error would be 'Too many values to unpack- Exception': This can be rectified by verifying the 'unpack' function in optirx.py and making sure that 'msgtype' is returned along with the extracted data. or Replace 'optirx.py' from '/home/.local/lib/python2.7/' with the optirx.py downloaded from this repository'
- If "data" is not recieved by the Rigid_body_publisher.py. Copy the optirx.py file from the hybrid robotics lab repository to "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/optirx.py."