Mission Planner Simulation & Dronekit

ryanryan2024 · June 21, 2021, 12:11am

Hello. Does anyone know how to connect mission planner’s simulator with dronekit? (and I don’t mean like dronekit-sitl) I am trying to run a python script to the simulator via dronekit like this video at 6:41. Thank you!

TunaLobster · June 21, 2021, 2:10pm

What is your input to the connect() command for dronekit?

See this line in the example script used in the linked video.

github.com

tizianofiorenzani/how_do_drones_work/blob/master/scripts/05_trajectory_tracking.py#L253


n_turns     = 3
direction   = 1 # 1 for cw, -1 ccw


mode      = 'GROUND'


#--------------------------------------------------
#-------------- CONNECTION  
#--------------------------------------------------    
#-- Connect to the vehicle
print('Connecting...')
vehicle = connect(connection_string)
#vehicle = connect('tcp:127.0.0.1:5762', wait_ready=True)




#--------------------------------------------------
#-------------- MAIN FUNCTION  
#--------------------------------------------------    
while True:
    
    if mode == 'GROUND':
        #--- Wait until a valid mission has been uploaded

ryanryan2024 · June 21, 2021, 3:02pm

print("Connecting To Vehicle...")
vehicle = connect('udp:127.0.0.1:14551')

TunaLobster · June 21, 2021, 3:37pm

You’ll want to use the TCP directly to ArduPilot SITL rather than the MAVProxy UDP port if you are not running MAVProxy. You can read about that here. Serial port mapping for SITL can be found here.