Erle-Plane (discontinued)

ROS Software Maintainer: Erle Robotics

Overview

Erle-Plane is a fixed-wing drone based on the award winner APM:Plane platform. Our hardware autopilot, Erle-brain, uses the APM autopilot thereby it can run missions following a list of recorded GPS waypoints.

Compared to other aerial robots such as Erle-Copter, Erle-Plane is ideal for missions that require more autonomy (time-wise) and where a big terrain must be covered.

Erle-Plane is powered by a Linux autopilot which includes ROS and communicates with the flight software using the mavros ROS package.

Installation

ROS Indigo comes preinstalled in the Erle-Brain 2, the flight computer contained in Erle-Plane.

ROS Packages

• mavros

• ros_erle_buzzer

• ros_erle_statusled

• ros_erle_pwm

• ros_erle_ubled

Documentation

Erle-Rover

• Erle-Rover Index (English)

Erle-Copter

• Erle Copter Documentation Index (English)

• Erle-Copter Assembly Instruction (English)

• Erle-Copter Assembly Instruction (Spanish)

• Assembly instructions – Legs (English)

Erle-Brain

• Erle-Brain Operation manual (English)

Erle-Spider

• Erle-Spider Documentation Index

PXFmini Autopilot shield

• PXFmini Documentation Index

Erle Robotics maintains a Documentation that mean to instruct how to use their technology.

A video series about how to code autonomous behaviors for drones with this technology is available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL39WpgKDjDfVfiNVG47DBi93wsh2XHKVO.

Getting Help

Post in our forum at http://forum.erlerobotics.com/.

Purchase

Erle-Robotics products are available through the Erle Robotics store.