Firmware for the ESP8266 designed to control a Parrot AR Drone 2.0 through UDP, using data passed in through its serial port.
This project came into being as one example (thanks, Geoff) of controlling something using my Power Glove UHID renovation project and largely exists as a just a fun little project. The code is far from perfect, but it currently works and wows! I certainly have not tested it enough nor fully through the Ar Drone's SDK, and warn you to use this code at your own risk.
Add the ESP8266 board config (details found here) to your Arduino installation to obtain board support as well the necessary libraries. Then, simply clone this repo to your Arduino sketchbook folder and upload via the Arduino IDE (I'm using an Adafruit Huzzah ESP8266).
You will also have to download the PGSensorHub project and upload that to whatever board you may be using to acquire data from your Power Glove (or what have you) (I'm using a Teensy LC).
Initially, the ESP will continuously attempt to connect to the AR Drone's AP. After connecting, it waits to receive navdata from the drone before briefly setting the emergency flag using the REF command and calibrating the drone's trim. Afterwards it will continuously send REF and PCMD commands to the drone based on commands received serially.
The ESP expects data coming from the serial port formatted (in ASCII) as follows:
K,G,(-)###,(-)###<LF>
Where K is a single char representing the pressed button on the keypad, G is a single char representing the current gesture being performed using the Power Glove and (-)### are pitch and roll values (int type), respectively, with optional negative signs. The string is then tokenized in function debugcommander().
Currently the following Power Glove buttons and gestures are recognized: ###Buttons
- 'S' - The Select button, used to send the emergency command
- 'P' - The Start button, used to send takeoff/land command when landed/flying, respectively
- '0' - The 0 or Center buttons, used to calibrate trim (use only when grounded)
###Gestures
- 'R' - Relaxed gesture, when flying, puts the drone in hover mode.
- 'F' - Fist gesture, when flying, causes the drone to move forward/back and left/right, according to the level of tilt in the Power Glove
- 'P' - Pointing gesture, when flying, causes the drone to move up/down and yaw Cw/CCW, according to the level of tilt in the Power Glove
At this time the ESP must be reset anytime the drone is powered down.
- Fork it!
- Create your feature branch:
git checkout -b my-new-feature - Commit your changes:
git commit -am 'Add some feature' - Push to the branch:
git push origin my-new-feature - Submit a pull request :D
Version 0.1: initial upload
Inspiration for AT command creation borrowed from node-ar-drone by felixge.
Float table and masks.h from AR.Drone-ESP8266 by jorisplusplus.
Refer to LICENSE file