Deployment of PX4 to use ROS2 on real hardware of drone

PX4 Autopilot
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Hi,

I plan to use ROS2 with real drone rather than SITL . What are the steps I need to do in order to achieve that like flashing some firmware or other such setup in order to fly the drone?

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Seen this? uXRCE-DDS (PX4-ROS 2/DDS Bridge) | PX4 Guide (main)

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Hi,

Thanks for the reply. Yes I have seen this and was wondering any additional steps were required or not like was needed for fastrtps or as such

Secondly, I was wondering if we could remove the companion computer on the drone(s) itself and perform all the offboard work directly on the base station computer(a laptop or a jetson nano). Is that possible?

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No idea. Be more precise, otherwise I’m not sure what exactly I’m supposed to answer.

Depends on what you’re trying to do, what the latency requirements are, and how well your link works. If you fly in perfect Wifi, then the answer is probably yes. If your link or link latency might deteriorate in certain scenarios, then you would have to deal with that somehow.