Introducing Bebop

The following image shows the Parrot Bebop quadrotor craft that will be discussed in this section. This quadrotor weighs 400 grams and has more advanced features than the Crazyflie. Its cost is around $ 500.

Bebop

Parrot is a company with headquarters in Paris, France, that produces products such as the Bebop quadrotor. The Bebop is described in detail at their website, http://www.parrot.com/usa/products/bebop-drone/.

The Bebop can be controlled by its own Skycontroller or by using smartphones or tablets. The Skycontroller is described at the following site: http://blog.parrot.com/2014/12/15/how-to-pilot-skycontroller/.

Bebop has on-board sensors for autonomous flight through the use of GPS for guidance. The Bebop also has a forward-looking camera for aerial photography. The Wi-Fi communications module of Bebop allows manual control and control by a ROS package called bebop_autonomy. The next section will concentrate on the use of the ROS software to control Bebop.

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