albatros-uav 0.4.2

The tool for managing unmanned aerial vehicles missions.

Albatros UAV

A python library that provides high-level functions for UAVs based on MAVLink. It allows to easily handle communication with the flight controller to create friendly mission management systems. Albatross supports direct communication with UAVs as well as via Redis (WIP)

Supported functionalities

Plane:

• arming vehicle,
• setting flight mode,
• setting servos positions,
• flying in GUIDED mode,
• uploading mission and flying in AUTO mode.

Copter:

• arming vehicle,
• setting flight mode,
• setting servos positions,
• flying in GUIDED mode,
• comming soon: uploading mission and flying in AUTO mode.

Supported MAVLink telemetry messages

• Attitude
• GlobalPositionInt
• GPSRawInt
• GPSStatus
• Heartbeat
• CommandACK
• MissionACK
• MissionRequestInt
• RadioStatus
• RcChannelsRaw
• ServoOutputRaw
• SysStatus
• MissionItemReached

Examples

Creating connection

from albatros.plane import Plane
from albatros.telemetry import ConnectionType

# SITL connection is default
plane = Plane() 

# Direct connection to the flight controller
plane = Plane(device="/dev/tty/USB0/", baud_rate=57600)

# You can also specify the ID of the vehicle you want to connect to and the ID of your system
# read more about MAVLink Routing in ArduPilot: https://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/mavlink-routing-in-ardupilot.html
plane = Plane(vehicle_system_id=1, vehicle_component_id=1, my_sys_id=1, my_cmp_id=191)

Arming vehicle (in SITL simulation)

Simply arm and disarm vehicle

Flow: arm vehicle wait for the vehicle to be armed disarm vehicle

$ python -m examples.arming_vehicle

from albatros.copter import Copter

copter = Copter()

while not copter.arm():
    print("waiting ARM")

copter.disarm()