Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: mav2rosgenerator
Version: 0.1.9
Summary: A Mavlink protocol to ROS API Generator.
Home-page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mav2rosgenerator/
Author: Pedro Marques da Silva
Author-email: posilva@gmail.com
License: LICENSE.txt
Description: # Mavlink to ROS API Generator Package
        
        This is a python package that enable us to create a entire Mavlink API under ROS middleware
        
        ## Main Features 
        
        * Generate a ROS Package ( for the main definition and others for each include in definition file).
        * Generate all msg files to enable to receive and send mavlink messages.
        * Generate a node with callbacks, subscribers and callbacks and a socket client to enable to connect to the ardupilot SITL for testing purposes. 
        * Generate the mavlink code based on the definition file ready to be used by the generated package
        
        ## Distribution
        
        * The generated code for ardupilot mega ROS Node Driver is [here] ( https://github.com/posilva/ardupilotmega-ros)
        ## Installation 
        
        * Install python-pip ie: sudo apt-get install python-pip
        * Run command: sudo pip install --upgrade mav2rosgenerator
        * Run command to see execution options: run_mav2ros.py -h
        
        ## Usage
        * Run Command:
        ```bash
        run_mav2ros.py -m $HOME/libs/mavlink-1.0.11/message_definitions/v1.0/ardupilotmega.xml -o $HOME/ros_workspace/src
        ```
        ## Future features
        1. Create a configuration or semantic (up, down, both) in the direction of the mavlink messages to optimize callbacks and subscribers ( for UP, BOTH directions messages) and publishers (for DOWN direction)
        Maybe mavlink definition file can contain a message tag attribute with direction:
        ```xml
            <message id="11" name="SET_MODE" direction="UP">
        ```
        Example: 
        
        * HEARTBEAT message direction = BOTH
        * SET_MODE message direction = UP
        * GPS_RAW_INT message direction = down
        
        
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