Drone Navigation

For this Cylon example, we'll be using an ARDrone again, this time getting data from it's navigation board. When the board emits an 'update' event, we'll log the data it's collected to the console.

Before we get started, make sure you've got the cylon-ardrone module installed. First, let's start by loading up Cylon:

var Cylon = require('cylon');

After we've got that loaded up, let's start defining our robot.

Cylon.robot({

Our robot will, as with the basic ARDrone example, have a connection to an ARDrone over an IP address, and a drone device to control the drone itself. Except this time, we're also adding a nav device that will bind to the ARDrone's navigation board.

  connections: {
    ardrone: { adaptor: 'ardrone', port: '192.168.1.1' }
  },

  devices: {
    drone: { driver: 'ardrone' },
    nav: { driver: 'ardrone-nav' }
  },

For our robot's work, it's going to enable the nav board's demo mode in the drone's config, and log data to the console whenever the nav board emits the 'update' event.

  work: function(my) {
    my.drone.config('general:navdata_demo', 'TRUE');
    my.nav.on('navdata', console.log);
  }

Simple enough. Now all that's left is to start the robot:

}).start();