Hi,
I'd like to create a Flight Control System using visual feedback with
ArduCopter <
http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/> 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.