slaghuis / lander

Uses a downward facing camera to see a landing target, and guides the drone to land there. This node will consume and leverage topics with the Xeni drone nodes.

• 👋 Hi, I’m Eric Slaghuis, or as my Github friends call me, @slaghuis
• 👀 I’m interested in a lot of things. Currently I am interested in Robotics, especially how an automomous drone can be valuable to industry.
• 🌱 I’m currently learning robotics using the ROS2 framework.
• 💞️ I’m looking to collaborate on ways to apply autonomous drone flight for commercial gain. (Help on my code would also be appreiated. I have built some stuff that I could not find on the internet, so I think there is some value in what I am doing)
• 📫 Why don't we start a chat.

lander's Issues

Comprehensive debugging

This node has to be debugged with the new Tracker node, and the drone_mavsdk node. Lessons were learnt when developing the navigation stack, and it is assumed that this node has logic errors or at least vast improvement opportunity applying those leanings.

Develop a Tracker node

Tracker node is to read a sensor_msgs/msg/Image topic (there are many camera nodes out there that publish these) and publish a lander_interfaces::msg::TrackStamped message to guide the drone to the landing target.

There will most likely be numerous versions of this, based on the type of vision based landing to be done. Land on a colored landing pad, a ArUco marker or even a infrared light (special camera needed I guess).