Question regarding product application

[Muqing Cao]

We are a research lab at CMU and we are considering building autonomous solutions using modalAI drone. When looking at the product, we have some queries:

1. we would like to use a drone with self onboard positioning capability, and want to be able to send commands from a remote desktop/cloud server for the drone to go to waypoints, which one is best for our purpose?The high resolution video should be streamed to the remote desktop as well.
2. the stinger vision drone looks very good with its vision position system and onboard light illumination, but is it not open for development and autonomous command?

[tom]

@Muqing-Cao Stinger runs the same VOXL SDK that is ran on starling and other platforms. Absolutely open for development and capable of autonomous command in the same way

[Muqing Cao]

@tom Thanks! Having looked briefly at the sdk instructions, it looks we are able to run ROS1/ROS2 on a host computer and control the drone using mavros setpoint, is that correct? Are the setpoint command available for both ROS1/ROS2? Can we get onboard VIO local position from ROS?

[Aaron Porter]

@Muqing-Cao You can get the VIO data from the ROS1 and ROS2 Topic /ov_overlay , /ov, or /qvio depending on which VIO you are using. Both have the same type interfaces available so either should work. Yes, you will be able to get run the commands on a host computer and as long as they are on the same ROS_DOMAIN_ID, for ROS2 this should be automatic.