- ardrone/navdata topic.
Information received from the drone will be published to the ardrone/navdata topic. The message type is ardrone_autonomy::Navdata and contains the following information:
- header: ROS message header
- batteryPercent: The remaining charge of the drone's battery (%)
- state: The Drone's current state: * 0: Unknown * 1: Inited * 2: Landed * 3,7: Flying * 4: Hovering * 5: Test (?) * 6: Taking off * 8: Landing * 9: Looping (?)
- rotX: Left/right tilt in degrees (rotation about the X axis)
- rotY: Forward/backward tilt in degrees (rotation about the Y axis)
- rotZ: Orientation in degrees (rotation about the Z axis)
- magX, magY, magZ: Magnetometer readings (AR-Drone 2.0 Only) (TBA: Convention)
- pressure: Pressure sensed by Drone's barometer (AR-Drone 2.0 Only) (Pa)
- temp : Temperature sensed by Drone's sensor (AR-Drone 2.0 Only) (TBA: Unit)
- wind_speed: Estimated wind speed (AR-Drone 2.0 Only) (TBA: Unit)
- wind_angle: Estimated wind angle (AR-Drone 2.0 Only) (TBA: Unit)
- wind_comp_angle: Estimated wind angle compensation (AR-Drone 2.0 Only) (TBA: Unit)
- altd: Estimated altitude (mm)
- motor1..4: Motor PWM values
- vx, vy, vz: Linear velocity (mm/s) [TBA: Convention]
- ax, ay, az: Linear acceleration (g) [TBA: Convention]
- tm: Timestamp of the data returned by the Drone returned as number of micro-seconds passed since Drone's boot-up.