Support for AI-Deck camera capture

[Kaijun101]

Hi @knmcguire and @whoenig,

I was wondering if the AI-Deck is able to be use with CrazySwarm 2. I would like to use the camera to detect Apriltags, to get some position data. I would like to use crazyswarm2 for exploration mission.

[whoenig]

You can certainly use the AI deck, but there is no special ROS integration, yet. For your use-case, you can use the official wifi-image-streamer example. On the host side, a Python script is provided to receive images. One would need to either publish those images as a ROS topic, or run AprilTags stand-alone.

[Kaijun101]

Hi @whoenig, sounds great, thanks!

[Kaijun101]

By the way, would there be an issue to have 15-20 drones streaming images? Any recommendations hahaha?

[knmcguire]

It shouldn't be a problem if they are connecting to a wifi Access point? But don't know the details. You should perhaps ask this particular question on https://discussions.bitcraze.io/ to Bitcraze directly

[Kaijun101]

Hi @knmcguire, thanks, will check with Bitcraze.