Hi, Nick.

Our Brown AR Drone driver is under active development, and it has been able to connect to the downward-facing camera for several months now. The current version in the brown-ros-pkg svn repository contains an /ardrone/togglecam service which, when called, swaps between the forward- and downward-facing cameras. It is not possible to access both video streams at once using a drone running Parrot's firmware.

Hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks!

Chris

Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:15:44 +0200
From: Dominick Vanthienen <dominick.vanthienen@mech.kuleuven.be>
To: ROS <ros-users@code.ros.org>
Subject: [ros-users] AR.Drone
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Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a AR.Drone driver which can give me the data of the downward-facing camera.
I see that there are two packages: ardrone and ardrone_brown. The latter containing a topic for the forward-facing camera.
Does anyone have experience with adapting one of these to have the downward-facing camera data?
Or, did anyone write some code for it, and is willing to share it?

Thanks a lot!

Nick