auROS is a distribution of ROS tailored for use in unmanned aircraft (especially those supporting MAVLink). It tries to make it easy to write applications that can update an aircraft's mission as it unfolds. auROS is designed to run on a companion 'mission management' computer which is connected to the flight controller but does not directly control the aircraft.
- Process data from visible & thermal sensors in a portable manner
- Change waypoints, get aircraft status & talk to ground stations
- Can run across multiple unmanned platforms
Our documentation is hosted at http://auros.readthedocs.org. Any contributions or improvements would be fantastic - just modify the docs folder and send a pull request.
See our documentation (work in progress)
- Issue Tracker: github.com/gamma-programme/auros/issues
- Source Code: github.com/gamma-programme/auros
If you are having issues, please let us know via the issue tracker or email. Mailing list coming soon.
The GAMMA programme was created to ask that, given that the intelligent vehicles and systems will exist – and remotely operated systems already do, how can they be used most effectively and how can the UK benefit most from that market?
If you can write a software app that makes life easier… Maybe it could identify a crime, patrol inside a nuclear reactor or tell a fighter jet where to go, then you could receive up to £150k per project to develop new concepts for intelligent software through the Growing Autonomous Mission Management Applications programme & receive assistance from academia and industry to take the product to market.
This work is being carried out as part of the GAMMA Programme by various partners (currently led by the University of Manchester) but we invite contributions from anyone who finds this useful!
The project is licensed under the BSD license.