DJI Tello

Introduction 

DJI Tello is controlled using UDP socket communication. The DJI Tello platform package provides a bridge between Aerostack2 and DJI Tello.

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Installation 

For binary installation, install by running:

sudo apt install ros-humble-as2-platform-tello

For source installation, clone the platform repository into your workspace and build it. See it in Aerostack2 installation guide.

# If you have installed Aerostack2 from sources we recommend to clone the package in the src folder of your workspace otherwise you can clone it in any ROS 2 workspace you want.
cd ~/aerostack2_ws/src/aerostack2/as2_aerial_platforms
git clone git@github.com:aerostack2/as2_platform_tello.git
cd ~/aerostack2_ws
rosdep install as2_platform_tello --from-paths src --ignore-src -r -y
colcon build --packages-up-to as2_platform_tello

Aerostack2 Common Interface 

For more details about platform control modes and sensors, see Aerostack2 Aerial Platform Concepts.

Control Modes 

These are supported control modes:

Control Modes DJI Tello Platform
Control Mode	Yaw Mode	Reference Frame
Hover	None	None
Speed	Speed	ENU

Sensors 

These are supported sensors:

Sensors DJI Tello Platform
Sensor	Topic	Type
Odometry	sensor_measurements/odom	nav_msgs/Odometry
IMU	sensor_measurements/imu	sensor_msgs/Imu
Battery	sensor_measurements/battery	sensor_msgs/BatteryState
Barometer	sensor_measurements/barometer	sensor_msgs/FluidPressure
Camera	sensor_measurements/camera	sensor_msgs/Image

Platform Launch 

Example of launch command:

ros2 launch as2_platform_tello tello_platform.launch.py namespace:=drone0