Package dlife.robot.ardrone

Classes and interfaces that support interaction with a Parrot ARDrone Quadricopter.

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Description

Class Summary

ARDrone	Class for communicating with the ARDrone quadricopter robot.
ARDroneCamera	Camera device for the ARDrone's cameras.
ARDroneFlightData	The ARDrone's flight data.
ARDroneLEDs	A device for controlling the four LED's on the ARDrone.
ARDroneYoke	Device to control the motion of the ARDrone.

Enum Summary

ARDroneLEDs.LED_ANIMATION

The LED animations that can be played.

Package dlife.robot.ardrone Description

Classes and interfaces that support interaction with a Parrot ARDrone Quadricopter.

The dLife support for the ARDrone Quadricopter is built using the Java Drone library.

Overview

The ARDrone is a hobby quadricopter produced by Parrot.

ARDrone Setup

1. Complete the Basic dLife Installation.
2. Enable incoming connections to Java on your firewall. This is necessary for the drone to be able to stream data and video to dLife. If the video is black when you run a Controller it is likely a firewall issue.

ARDrone Quick Start

1. Complete the ARDrone Setup (once only).
2. Connect the ARDrone's battery.
3. Connect the computer to the drone's wifi network.
4. Launch the Control Center by double clicking the ControlCenter (Mac/Linux) or ControlCenter.bat (Win) programs in the dLifeDist/UserScripts folder.
5. Select dlife.robot.ardrone.ARDrone in the "Robot" drop down.
6. Click "Controller"
7. Navigate to and choose dLifeDist/examples/dlife/robot/ardrone/ARDroneUpDown.class in the File Chooser dialog that appears.
8. Click "Start Up".
9. Click "Run". The drone should take-off and then go slowly up and down between heights of approximately 0.5 and 2 meters. The Camera tab in the Control Center will display the view from the drone's forward facing camera.

Additional Resources

• The table of classes at the top of this page identifies all of the sensors and effectors that are supported.
• The examples.dlife.robot.ardrone package contains working examples that can be used with an ARDrone.
• See the dlife.robot.gui.controlcenter documentation for information about using the ControlCenter.
• See the Controller class for information on creating controllers.