hi all! I need to create an UAV model for Gazebo, a Quadrotor. I need to control it also, by keyboard. What can i do? There is some package that allow to do that?
Creating the model it's not so hard, but i don't know how to control it.
Originally posted by Maurizio88 on ROS Answers with karma: 155 on 2011-11-22
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Your best bet would be to look in the AscTec Pelican stack. This quadrotor has a functional urdf file that can be used to bring up the pelican in Gazebo. I don't believe that the urdf provided functions 100% in Gazebo yet, so here is a link to my previous resolution of this issue.
Originally posted by DimitriProsser with karma: 11163 on 2011-11-22
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Comment by DimitriProsser on 2011-12-05:
I've still been unable to solve this problem. The one advantage is that with this configuration, you can create your own quadrotor mesh and load it in place of the pelican's mesh and it should still work.
Comment by DimitriProsser on 2011-11-23:
The .stl file is indeed incorrect in some way. I'm not exactly sure why/how this happened, but I reproduced your error exactly. The odd part is that it looks perfectly fine in Rviz. I'll look into this.
Comment by tfoote on 2012-03-19:
You can also check out the hector quadrotor stack recently released. http://www.ros.org/news/2012/03/announcement-of-hector-quadrotor-stack.html documentation http://www.ros.org/wiki/hector_quadrotor