Run the Road Runner mission sample

The Sphinx simulator must be installed to test this mission. If the Sphinx simulator is not installed yet, please follow these instructions to install it.

The Road Runner mission sample works with the world parrot-ue4-landscape-ecosystem (the main map) in the Sphinx simulator.

First, install and launch the simulator with a specific drone position using the pose parameter:

# Install Landscape ecosystem
$ sudo apt install parrot-ue4-landscape-ecosystem

# Launch the simulator with the custom 'pose' parameter
$ sphinx "/opt/parrot-sphinx/usr/share/sphinx/drones/anafi_ai.drone"::pose="1255.41273 -2342.71922 268.21695 0 0 1.5708" & parrot-ue4-landscape-ecosystem

The pose option places the drone directly on the road. To run the mission correctly, change the simulation weather once the simulator has started (unnecessary if you run the simulator with the -quality=low option):

$ sphinx-cli param -m world sky/sky preset daylight_verycloudy

The mission can be installed with:

$ airsdk install --default

NOTE: For more information on Airsdk, please refer to the Airsdk documentation.

After restarting the drone, the Road Runner mission sample is ready to go and will start once a take-off command is received. To order the drone to take off, you can use an Olympe script.

First, install Olympe with this command:

$ pip3 install parrot-olympe

and execute the script take_off.py to send a takeoff command to the drone:

$ python3 take_off.py

The drone takes off at a height of 10 metres, points its camera to the ground and starts moving forward. Simply send a take-off/landing command or any movement command (up/down, left/right, forward/back or turn left/turn right) to stop the mission. The drone resumes its nominal behaviour in its hovering state.

NOTE: For more information on Olympe, please refer to the Olympe documentation.