CLEVER is an educational programmable drone kit consisting of an unassembled quadcopter, open source software and documentation. The kit includes Pixhawk/Pixracer autopilot running PX4 firmware, Raspberry Pi 3 as companion computer, a camera for computer vision navigation as well as additional sensors and peripheral devices.
Copter Express has implemented a large number of different autonomous drone projects using exactly the same platform: automated pizza delivery in Samara and Kazan, coffee delivery in Skolkovo Innovation Center, autonomous quadcopter with charging station for site monitoring and security, winning drones on Robokross-2016 and Robokross-2017 competitions and many others.
The main documentation in Russian is available on our Gitbook: https://copterexpress.gitbooks.io/clever/content/
Use it to learn how to assemble, configure, pilot and program autonomous CLEVER drone.
Preconfigured image for Raspberry Pi 3 with installed and configured software, ready to fly, is available here.
Image includes:
- Raspbian Stretch
- ROS Kinetic
- Configured networking
- OpenCV
- mavros
- CLEVER software bundle for autonomous drone control
API description in Russian for autonomous flights is available here.
Install ROS Kinetic according to the documentation.
Clone repo to directory /home/pi/catkin_ws/src/clever:
cd ~/catkin_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/CopterExpress/clever.git cleverBuild ROS packages:
cd ~/catkin_ws
catkin_make -j1Enable systemd service roscore (if not enabled):
sudo systemctl enable /home/pi/catkin_ws/src/clever/deploy/roscore.service
sudo systemctl start roscoreEnable systemd service clever:
sudo systemctl enable /home/pi/catkin_ws/src/clever/deploy/clever.service
sudo systemctl start cleverNecessary ROS packages:
opencv3mavrosrosbridge_suiteweb_video_servercv_cameranodeletdynamic_reconfigurebondcpp, branchmasterroslintrosserial