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uci-uav-forge / uavf

UAV Forge's ODCL repository.
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UGV Drop waypoint/control #61

Open Herpderk opened 2 years ago

Herpderk commented 2 years ago

We need a method of communicating when the UGV is ready to be dropped and controlling the winch mechanism that will drop it. To do so, we can run a ROS node on the LattePanda that looks for when the drop waypoint/coordinates have been reached. Once that condition has been satisfied, we can utilize the pyfirmata library to control the onboard arduino which in turn runs the winch motor.

Herpderk commented 2 years ago

looking into mission parsing to know when the loiter command is used, also need to find out exact speed and time for running the motor