Hi :slight_smile: My team and I are doing a aproject for university that is basically to change the BlueROV2 in a way that it becomes autonomous. Our main goals is for it to go from point A to point B without any joystick control (just an inicial input). Later on, we would also like for it to recei…

The autopilot communicates with the MAVLink protocol . You can use MAVProxy as a development tool, and as an introduction to poking around what the autopilot can do. Our topside software, QGroundControl can save the video stream directly to the hard drive (with a tether), but it is also possible to …

Hi @ericagomes We’ve been tossing around the AUV idea for a few years now, at this point in time, the only solution is to use a Water Linked system with a tether. That will drive waypoint missions. The community lacks affordable underwater wireless positioning systems. Here’s a bit of a discussion…

Hi @kevink . Thank you for your answer… We saw that but for this kind of project is too much, so our idea is to use the sensors that already exist in the bluerov2 to get some kind of relative position. For now we will only be working in a water tank so we think it will enough. Can you maybe tell me h…

Thank you for your answer @jwalser ! Our idea for now is to connect an odroid to the raspeberry pi. In the Odroid we are thinking about installing qgroundcontrol and then share the odroid “desktop” to a ground computer so the user can reach it. Maybe this way we can avoid handling to much with mavli…

@ericagomes I’m not much of an expert on getting sensor values out of the Mavlink messages, but you can try reading through this documentation: MAVLink Interface — Dev documentation The compasses and gyros inside the Pixhawk won’t be accurate enough to get a reliable position, it’s been tried. Abou…

Hi @ericagomes , To get the data you’ll need to use mavlink, how are you planning to solve this adding the odroid ? Like @kevink said, it’s not possible to use the sensors to estimate the ROV odometry. If you are using a water tank, the best idea to solve the position problem is to use a camera an…

I’m also working on making my ROV autonomous. The first step is to format a SD card with raspian and get ssh working over wifi. You probably want to do this with a separate raspberry pi first since getting an SD card in and out of the blue rov2 is a royal pain. For supplying wall power during devel…

We are doing a a project to change the recently purchased BlueROV2 to autonomous with image capture followed processing and then according navigation. At present, we are able to control Blue ROV2 through groundcontrol joystick and additionally we are able command ROV through mavproxy(arm throttle,…

Take a look here: [image] Getting started with MAVproxy Blue Robotics Software Hi @sjpanwar , Check the QGC code to see what kind of mavlink messages are used, they sounds like exatcly whay you want, take a look in the different modes and what message is used for each one …

Hi, Could you please give me a quick hint on how to save the video locally on the vehicle? Cheers

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