ardupilot-mavsdk

This repository provides basic tools and examples to run control ArduPilot SITL using MAVSDK.

• docker

This folder contains docker files to build a docker container which contains the dev environment for ArduPilot SITL as well as MAVSDK.

• docs

This contains documentation on pecularities of various ArduPilot features needed to control a vehicle running this autopilot. This will grow over time. Best documentation is however the official Ardupilot documentation:

https://ardupilot.org/copter

• examples This contains many examples on how to use MAVSDK library to control ArduPilot SITL.

The following sequence should be followed in order to setup everything:

1. Build the docker images in docker/ folder using the script ./docker/build_and_push_docker_images.sh

2. Clone the MAVSDK library on your system. Checkout specfic tag or version if don't want to use the main brach.

3. Adapt the PATH_TO_MAVSDK and PATH_TO_TOOLS in the script run_docker.sh

4. Run the script run_docker.sh

5. In the container so launched, compile MAVSDK library by running the script build_mavsdk.sh

6. Similarly build the examples by running the script build_examples.sh

7. Launch the SITL by running run_sitl_apm.sh

8. Run any of the examples by running run_example.sh

Questions

For any questions, please raise issue in this repository.