Hello all!
So I was reading about px4 and ROS2 integration here: ROS 2 User Guide (PX4-ROS 2 Bridge) | PX4 User Guide (v1.12)
and it sounds exactly like the solution I need for a project I am currently building (autonomous rover and after an autonomous quadcopter). I have some experience with ROS2 already.
The thing I want to ask: is it possible to access each sensor data using px4_ros_com? Is it hardware dependent?
I am planning to buy a Pixhawk 2.4.8 (the chinese version because I can’t find any other more reliable here in Brazil) that comes with a L3GD20H gyroscope, a LSM303D accelerometer/magnetometer and an MPU 6000 accel/gyro. Would I be able to read each one of these individually? Or does the Pixhawk already does the sensor fusion (which I know it does) and what I would be able to do is the output of the fusion?
If not, does any flight controller gives me access to each individual sensor? I saw that Holybro just launched Pixhawk 6X, not so expensive and the sensors are more accurate, so I am considering to import one of these as well. But I don’t want to be disappointed and not be able to do that.
This is important to me because I am studying/researching sensor fusion and I want to implement, just as an exercise not for real world use, my own algorithms, so I would need to read each one individually. The Pixhawk sounds like a perfect solution because everything is already integrated, that is, I wouldn’t need to buy each IMU separated and wire them up to an Arduino or something. On top of that, I could use it for a quadcopter.
Thank you very much!