Corvus

Redbird Robotic's flagship autonomous aerial drone.

Startup instructions

From a remote machine, do the following:

# ssh into vehicle
ssh <vehicle_username>@<vehicle_address>

# clone the flight repo
git clone https://github.com/redbirdrobotics/corvus
cd corvus

# build the ros project(s)
catkin build

# source the generated env variables
source devel/setup.bash

# launch the launchfile
roslaunch redbird_m7a_vehicle startup.launch

# serve the desired flight to the vehicle (this corresponds to a programmed 
#   "flight", discoverable by the "flight_director".)
rosservice call /redbird/flight_director/start_flight "takeoff_land"

Putting that all together:

ssh <vehicle_username>@<vehicle_address> && \
git clone https://github.com/redbirdrobotics/corvus && \
cd corvus && \
catkin build && \
source devel/setup.bash && \
roslaunch redbird_m7a_vehicle startup.launch

# make sure you are ready to fly before the following line:
rosservice call /redbird/flight_director/start_flight "takeoff_land"

Having any issues? try opening a new terminal any sourcing the environment variables again (from a properly built catkin workspace) using source devel/setup.bash.

Encountered build issue and solutions

• warning: libboost_system.so.1.58.0, needed by /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/libroscpp.so, may conflict with libboost_system.so.1.61.0

solved by installing geographical dataset for mavros:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mavlink/mavros/master/mavros/scripts/install_geographiclib_datasets.sh && \
chmod +x install_geographiclib_datasets.sh # make sure we have permissions && \
./install_geographiclib_datasets.sh

How to contribute:

git clone https://github.com/redbirdrobotics/corvus
git checkout -b [sim|loc|flight|controlpanel]dev # depending on your subteam