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PedroS235 / TelloSwarm

This is a ros package to controll a swarm of DJI Tello drones, which uses aruco markers to know is localization in space.
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Is this regular Tello or Tello EDU? #2

Closed lordbagel42 closed 1 year ago

lordbagel42 commented 1 year ago

Description doesn’t say which, input would be great.

PedroS235 commented 1 year ago

Hi @lordbagel42,

I have used DJI Tello, the regular ones. However, if I am being honest with you, this is repo is very outdated, actually. Therefore, I don't know if this will even work today. In case you just want to control your drone with ROS, I have made 2 packages, one for ROS1(no longer working on this one) and one for ROS2.

I might be updating this package to work with the ROS driver I have developed, but that is not in my plans for the moment.

You can find them here:

lordbagel42 commented 1 year ago

For any development purposes I was going to use a different driver, yes.

I do wonder, what was the “controllers” described in the documentation? Were they custom or something you could buy? I couldn’t find any in for for it.

Thank you.

PedroS235 commented 1 year ago

The controllers in my case were simply Raspberry Pi's, or the odroid xu4+ which are equivalent, which were all connected to a switch. But it is not required. In fact, an alternative would be to use a single pc, but with for example Wi-Fi dongles, one for each drone you plan on using.

This said, a controller is basically a ROS node, that controls a drone.

lordbagel42 commented 1 year ago

Thank you. I think I can make a couple virtual interfaces, or I do have a few USB WiFi dongles.