IMRCLab / crazyswarm2

A Large Quadcopter Swarm
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potential new backend with aiocflib #548

Open knmcguire opened 1 month ago

knmcguire commented 1 month ago

Colmot from Skybrush has made their own crazyflie python library that uses asyncio instead of python threads. It will probably be faster in communication so we should at least try it out if it can be a potential new backend:

https://github.com/skybrush-io/aiocflib

knmcguire commented 1 month ago

We just need to be aware that interfacing this with ROS might not be trivial, but there are options like mentioned here: https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/24304/how-to-bridge-rclpy-with-pythons-asyncio