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Mavlink Vehicle Abstraction Layer

A Mavlink wrapper dedicated to the most common messages that are exchanged between an air vehicle and a ground station.

Requirements

To generate MAVLink headers during the build:

• Python 2.7+
• python future

The following requirements are only needed for running the tests:

• MavProxy (https://github.com/ArduPilot/MAVProxy)
• ArduPilot (https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot)

Build and Install

1. Make sure you have initialized the submodules of this project:

   git submodule update --init --recursive
   

2. Create a build folder and compile using CMAKE as follows:

   mkdir build
   cd build
   cmake ..
   make
   

Run Tests

1. Open a second terminal and run Ardupilot:

   cd ${ARDUPILOTDIR}/build/sitl/bin
   ./arducopter-quad --model x
   

2. In a third terminal, run Mavproxy:

   mavproxy.py --master tcp:127.0.0.1:5760 --out udp:127.0.0.1:14557 --streamrate -1
   

3. Run tests:

   build/tests/tests
   

   A series of tests will be executed and their results (OK/FAIL) will be displayed on the screen.