Drones Still Going Open Source
summary
Parrot ports ArduPilot on Bebop 2 and the new Disco wing, exposes flight state over shared-memory telemetry and runs a separate imaging process (PIMP) that uses V4L2, GStreamer, GPU-based stabilization and the hardware encoder to stream and record video. The demo stabilizes roll and pitch in real time (yaw still limited) and boots ArduPilot via a WAF build (board=disco) pushed over adb. Remaining work: image quality, auto white balance, MAVLink/RTSP control and tighter integration. A Tegra K1 kit parrot slam-dunk runs Ubuntu+ROS for SLAM and obstacle experiments.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:22Agenda
- 1:04Parrot Bebop 2
- 2:53Do Pilots
- 4:33AutoPilot
- 6:12Celyn Drivers
- 8:10Why Open Source
- 9:53Andrew Trudeau
- 13:09Video
- 13:32Autosys
- 15:19One big process
- 15:59Three main processes
- 16:39Open Source Libraries
- 17:36Telemetry
- 19:48Hooks
- 20:40Firmware
- 26:49Future Plans
- 29:59Parrot Slam Dunk
- 31:27Questions
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