Hi,
I'd like to create a Flight Control System using visual feedback
with
ArduCCU-based, it seopter
from DIYDrones as an airframe. My main area of interest is attitude
stabilization with visual information in indoor environments.
What I plan to do is:
- buy the ArduCopter airframe featuring a 16MHz Atmega1280, 3x
gyro, 3x accel, 3x magneto
- add 4 sonar / IR sensors for wall detection
- add a RGB camera and a video transmitter
- add Xbee for communication (real-time quad to PC telemetry and
PC to quad control commands)
I hope to implement image-processing techniques in my PC to be able
to control the attitude of my quadrotor in real-time. The control
system would be onboard, the PC would only send camera-estimated
attitude info to the quadrotor. I'd also like, and hence the
question here, to build a simulation and visualization of the whole
system (including sensor measurement simulation).
Can I benefit from using ROS in my design / simulation /
visualization? I'm working on the project only by myself and would
like to have some results in a year from now.
Thanks for any suggestions helping me to achieve my goals.