Setting up the Multi-MAV GCS

Dependencies

• ROS Kinetic
  • mavros
• Python 2.7
  • PyGObject
  • PIL
  • requests
  • requests-cache
• GTK+ 3.0
• git

On Ubuntu, follow the ROS installation instructions, and then run:

$ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-mavros \
        python-{gi,gi-dev,gi-cairo,pil,requests,requests-cache} \
        libgtk-3-{0,dev} gir1.2-gtk-3.0 git

Installation

1. Install the dependencies (see above).

2. Create a catkin workspace (see Creating a workspace for catkin) and cd into its src directory.

3. Clone multi_mav_gcs into the directory with git clone https://tachibanatech.com/multi_mav_gcs.git.

4. cd up out of the src directory, and run catkin_make.

Running

1. Start up the mavros nodes in their respective namespaces. You don't actually have to do this before the other steps. You do need to have a running roscore before step 3, though.

2. In the catkin workspace, run source devel/setup.bash (or the appropriate setup script if your shell isn't bash).

3. Run rosrun multi_mav_gcs multi_mav_gcs.py.

4. Add the namespaces using the textbox and button at the top of the sidebar.