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Aug
08
2014

Flying Iris At Distill 2014

Team Gobot was speaking at the Distill 2014 conference in San Francisco this week. Held at the Palace of Fine Arts, we were very lucky to fly a 3DRobotics Iris around using a pre-release of our new support of the Mavlink protocol for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).

During a group photo that took place the day after our talk about "The 10 Rules of RobotOps", we had a golden opportunity to fly around a little inside the facility, and captured some rather unique footage, as you can see above.

We will be releasing our code for the Golang MAVLINK generator, along with gobot-mavlink itself, very soon. Here is a little taste of what we can do:

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "net/http"
  "strings"

  "github.com/hybridgroup/gobot"
  "github.com/hybridgroup/gobot/api"
  "github.com/hybridgroup/gobot/platforms/mavlink"
  common "github.com/hybridgroup/gobot/platforms/mavlink/common"
)

type telemetry struct {
  Status    string
  Roll      float32
  Yaw       float32
  Pitch     float32
  Latitude  float32
  Longitude float32
  Altitude  int32
  Heading   float32
}

func main() {
  if gobot.Version() != "0.7.dev" {
    panic("this requires the dev branch!")
  }

  summary := &telemetry{Status: "STANDBY"}
  gbot := gobot.NewGobot()

  a := api.NewAPI(gbot)

  a.Get("/mavlink/:a", func(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
    path := req.URL.Path
    t := strings.Split(path, "/")
    buf, err := Asset("assets/" + t[2])
    if err != nil {
      http.Error(res, err.Error(), http.StatusNotFound)
      return
    }
    t = strings.Split(path, ".")
    if t[len(t)-1] == "js" {
      res.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/javascript; charset=utf-8")
    } else if t[len(t)-1] == "css" {
      res.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/css; charset=utf-8")
    }
    res.Write(buf)
  })

  adaptor := mavlink.NewMavlinkAdaptor("iris", "/dev/ttyACM0")
  iris := mavlink.NewMavlinkDriver(adaptor, "iris")

  work := func() {

    iris.AddEvent("telemetry")

    gobot.Once(iris.Event("packet"), func(data interface{}) {
      fmt.Println(data)
      packet := data.(*common.MAVLinkPacket)

      dataStream := common.NewRequestDataStream(10,
        packet.SystemID,
        packet.ComponentID,
        0,
        1,
      )
      iris.SendPacket(common.CraftMAVLinkPacket(packet.SystemID,
        packet.ComponentID,
        dataStream,
      ))
    })

    gobot.On(iris.Event("message"), func(data interface{}) {

      fmt.Println("message: ", data.(common.MAVLinkMessage).Id())
      if data.(common.MAVLinkMessage).Id() == 0 {
        statusCodes := map[uint8]string{
          1: "BOOT",
          2: "CALIBRATING",
          3: "STANDBY",
          4: "ACTIVE",
          5: "CRITICAL",
          6: "EMERGENCY",
          7: "POWEROFF",
          8: "ENUM_END",
        }
        summary.Status = statusCodes[data.(*common.Heartbeat).SYSTEM_STATUS]
        if summary.Status != "" {
          gobot.Publish(iris.Event("telemetry"), summary)
        }
      }

      if data.(common.MAVLinkMessage).Id() == 30 {
        roll := data.(*common.Attitude).ROLL
        pitch := data.(*common.Attitude).PITCH
        yaw := data.(*common.Attitude).YAW

        if roll < 4 || roll > -4 {
          summary.Roll = (roll * 180 / 3.14)
        }
        if yaw < 4 || roll > -4 {
          summary.Yaw = (yaw * 180 / 3.14)
        }
        if pitch < 4 || roll > -4 {
          summary.Pitch = (pitch * 180 / 3.14)
        }
        gobot.Publish(iris.Event("telemetry"), summary)
      }

      if data.(common.MAVLinkMessage).Id() == 33 {
        summary.Latitude = float32(data.(*common.GlobalPositionInt).LAT) / 10000000.0
        summary.Longitude = float32(data.(*common.GlobalPositionInt).LON) / 10000000.0
        summary.Altitude = data.(*common.GlobalPositionInt).ALT
        summary.Heading = float32(data.(*common.GlobalPositionInt).HDG) / 100
        gobot.Publish(iris.Event("telemetry"), summary)
      }
    })
  }

  gbot.AddRobot(gobot.NewRobot("irisBot",
    []gobot.Connection{adaptor},
    []gobot.Device{iris},
    work,
  ))

  a.Start()
  gbot.Start()
}

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