spaceplane

The aim of this project is to release a glider from a high altitude weather balloon and have the glider autonomously navigate back to a target landing spot where it can be recovered.

SETUP

RASPI-CONFIG

• enable ssh
• disable serial
• expand os
• disable gui
• set hostname to droneberry
• set password to *********
• reboot

DEPENDENCIES

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install vim python-pip python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev tmux
sudo pip install requests monotonic future mavproxy dronekit pyserial pymavlink 

DRONEKIT

Dronekit was edited according to ticket 585 to avoid receiving problematic messages from a GCS

sudo mv /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dronekit/test/__init.py__ /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dronekit/test/__init.py__.original
sudo cp ~/dro.ne/droneberry/dronekit_util/__init.py /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dronekit/test/__init.py__