Mission Planner VirtualBOX Dronekit-sitl

MissionPlaner on virtualbox

Mission Planer setup

• Host: ubuntu 16.04
• Guest: Windows7
• Virtualbox
• Install VM VirtualBox Extension Pack (support USB2,3)
• Install VB Guest Addition
• Install Firfox (IE crash all the time)
• .Net 4.62
• Mission Planner
• Set VBOX network in bridge mode

Demo: Using Dronekit and Dronekit-SITL

• Reference

sudo pip install mavproxy
sudo pip install dronekit
sudo pip install dronekit-sitl

• Terminal 1

dronekit-sitl copter

• Terminal 2

export MP_IP="192.168.2.117"

mavproxy.py --master tcp:127.0.0.1:5760 --out udp:127.0.0.1:14551 --out udp:`echo $MP_IP`:14550

• Virtualbox (windows)
  • Change the connection type combo to udp
  • Select port 14550

Note

When run mavproxy got an error: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'MAV_TYPE_DODECAROTOR'

After some search in google , I found that pymavlink need to upgraded , download and install from pypi.org version 2.2.10 (current version 2.0.6)