Ardrone Flight
Allows user to send flight control commands to an ARDrone. Flight control commands are those used to tell the ARDrone to take off, land, and or any number of other autonomous flight manuvers.
How To Connect
Communication with the ARDrone's flight control interface takes place using a WiFi connection. The ARDrone is a WiFi access point, so it normally can be the only device you connect to, without some additional effort to reconfigure the drone itself to put it into infrastructure mode.
require 'artoo' connection :ardrone, :adaptor => :ardrone, :port => '192.168.1.1:5556' device :drone, :driver => :ardrone, :connection => :ardrone
How To Use
Example of controlling an ARDrone.
require 'artoo' connection :ardrone, :adaptor => :ardrone, :port => '192.168.1.1:5556' device :drone, :driver => :ardrone, :connection => :ardrone work do drone.start drone.take_off after(15.seconds) { drone.hover.land } after(20.seconds) { drone.stop } end
Example of ARDrone doing a flip.
require 'artoo' connection :ardrone, :adaptor => :ardrone device :drone, :driver => :ardrone, :connection => :ardrone connection :navigation, :adaptor => :ardrone_navigation, :port => '192.168.1.1:5554' device :nav, :driver => :ardrone_navigation, :connection => :navigation work do on drone, :ready => :fly drone.start(nav) end def fly(*data) drone.take_off after(10.seconds) { drone.animate(:flip_ahead, 1000) } after(15.seconds) { drone.hover.land } after(20.seconds) { drone.stop } end
Commands
start
Starts up the drone.
Params
no params
Returns
drone
stop
Stops the drone.
Params
no params
Returns
drone
hover
Causes the drone to hover at current altitude.
Params
no params
Returns
drone
land
Causes the drone to begin its landing sequence.
Params
no params
Returns
drone
take_off
Causes the drone to take off, if already started.
Params
no params
Returns
drone
emergency
Causes the drone to make an immediate emergency landing.
Params
no params
Returns
drone
front_camera
Causes the drone to turn on the front-facing camera.
Params
no params
Returns
drone
bottom_camera
Causes the drone to turn on the bottom-facing camera.
Params
no params
Returns
drone
up
Causes the drone to increase altitude.
Params
no params
Returns
drone
down
Causes the drone to decrease altitude.
Params
no params
Returns
drone
left
Causes the drone to bank to the left.
Params
no params
Returns
drone
right
Causes the drone to bank to the right.
Params
no params
Returns
drone
forward
Causes the drone to bank forward.
Params
no params
Returns
drone
backward
Causes the drone to bank backward.
Params
no params
Returns
drone
turn_left
Causes the drone to rotate to the left.
Params
no params
Returns
drone
turn_right
Causes the drone to rotate to the right.
Params
no params
Returns
drone
reset_watchdog
Reset the watchdog in the drone.
Params
no params
Returns
drone
led(color_animation, strength, duration)
Turn on the drone's built in LEDs with the color_animation passed, strength and duration color_animation might be one of the following: :blink_green_red, :blink_green, :blink_red, :blink_orange, :snake_green_red, :fire, :standard, :red, :green, :red_snake, :blank, :right_missile, :left_missile, :double_missile, :front_left_green_others_red, :front_right_green_others_red, :rear_right_green_others_red, :rear_left_green_others_red, :left_green_right_red, :left_red_right_green, :blink_standard
Params
- color_animation - params
- strength - params
- duration - params
Returns
drone
animate(animation, duration)
Animate the ardrone to do flips and turns depending on selection, available animation options are: :phi_m30_deg,:phi_30_deg, :theta_m30_deg, :theta_30_deg, :theta_20_deg_yaw_200_deg, :theta_20_deg_yaw_m_200_deg, :turnaround, :turnaround_go_down, :yaw_shake, :yaw_dance, :phi_dance, :theta_dance, :vz_dance, :wave, :phi_theta_mixed, :double_phi_theta_mixed, :flip_ahead, :flip_behind, :flip_left, :flip_right
Params
- animation - params
- duration - params
Returns
drone
Events
start_driver
Starts the driver
ready
Gets triggered when the drone is ready.
Compatibility
