Simulating a Drone from Scratch Open Class
What you will learn in this Open Class
In this live show we are going to solve a question about Simulating a Drone from Scratch!
This is a question asked by Daniel Jeswin from India at our questions page http://www.theconstructsim.com/ros-qa/.
MAIN QUESTION SECTION
How can I simulate a drone in ROS from scratch? I refer to the making of the URDF file?
So we are showing in this section the details about how to create your drone simulation by analyzing the sjtu_drone package. We will analyze how the SDF description of a drone for Gazebo simulator has been structured, which plugins are used and which control is it using, so you can copy or adapt to your own drone.
ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS SECTION
On this section, many other questions will also be answered briefly.
ROS USEFUL TOOLS SECTION
In the section of useful tools, we are going to show the Dynamic Reconfigure tool, used to configure ROS programs parameters on the fly.