Controlling pitch,yaw and roll for object tracking

Ground Control Software
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Hi. We have an apm 2.8 flight controller.

With the help of opencv mobilenet and raspberry pi 3, we need to design a drone for object tracking as a senior project to graduate(We’re focused on a car at the moment.)

We will write python scripts including a pid controller. We need to control drone’s directional elements (roll,pitch etc). using python.

How shall we do it?

Mavlink’s commands seem to a little bit complex for me. If there is a python library, that would be perfect.

Dronekit can control velocity but it controls directions parallel to north-south and west-east directions, not drone’s direction.

Mission planner’s python scripting commands (Script.sendrc, cs.yaw etc) are perfect but we need to run in a terminal which is outside of mission planner software

Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks.

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Pymavlink seems quite useful. Are there any detailed documentations for pymavlink library?

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Just use dronekit-python. It already does what you want. But you do need to recompile it from source.

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Hello. We decided to use mavlink local ned. It is easier for us to control drone’s position with this way. Thanks for the answers.