inspector_software_uav

ROS-based software for PV plants inspections. The project is divided into ground an earial segments.

This package contains the aerial segment, to be installed on each UAV on-board computer.

You can find the ground segment here

How to build and install inspector_software_uav

ROS

This package is based on ROS Kinetic Kame.

See instructions and install "Desktop-Full" package:

http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Installation/Ubuntu

DJI_SDK & UAL

Fist of all, in order to use DJI autopilots, you need to install the DJI SDK for ROS. You can follow the next tutorial:

http://wiki.ros.org/dji_sdk/Tutorials/Getting%20Started

The next step is installing UAL for DJI autopilots. Clone the next repository and follow the instructions for installation:

https://github.com/AlejandroCastillejo/grvc-ual/tree/dji_1.0

The DJI SDK ROS package may require nmea_msgs. To install this dependency do:

apt-get install ros-kinetic-nmea-msgs

Other dependencies

• ROS-multimaster-fkie:

  sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-multimaster-fkie
  

• usb_cam driver:

  sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-usb-cam
  

• gphoto2 for python (for RGB cameras)

  sudo pip install gphoto2
  

• sf11 altitude sensor driver

  cd ~/(your catkin_ws)/src
  git clone https://github.com/wavelab/cereal_port.git
  git clone https://github.com/AlejandroCastillejo/sf11_altitude_sensor.git
  

• scp (transfer protocol for file uploading)

  sudo pip install scp
  sudo apt install sshpass
  

• python-pandas (requiered for data bases)

  sudo pip install pandas