Using a pixhawk as an external imu for the MRL robots.
Install dependencies with the following commands (replace melodic
with your ros version)
sudo apt install ros-melodic-mavros ros-melodic-mavros-msgs ros-melodic-mavros-extras
pip install mavproxy
To launch
roslaunch pixhawk_external_imu apm2.launch
This will also create a proxy for conencting with QGroundControl or MAVProxy (on udp port 14560). An example connecting with MAVProxy
mavproxy.py --master="udpout:127.0.0.1:14560"
Using MAVProxy we can calibrate the different sensors through a command line interface