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= Ascending Technologies Pelican/Hummingbird =

''ROS Software Maintainer: CCNY Robotics Lab''

The [[http://www.asctec.de/|AscTec]] Pelican and Hummingbird quadrotor helicopters are built by Ascending Technologies and can be interfaced with ROS.

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== Installation ==
Refer to the [[asctec_drivers]] and [[mav_tools]] installation instructions.

== Tutorials ==
To get started with the driver, refer to the tutorials on the [[asctec_drivers]] page.

== Resources ==

 * [[http://robotics.ccny.cuny.edu/wiki/AscTec|AscTec Wiki]]: a community wiki maintained by the [[http://robotics.ccny.cuny.edu | CCNY Robotics Lab]]. It contains useful information about the !AscTec quadrotors' software and hardware.  
 * [[http://asctec-users.986163.n3.nabble.com|AscTec Users mailing list]] community mailing list, maintained by the [[http://robotics.ccny.cuny.edu | CCNY Robotics Lab]].
 * [[http://answers.ros.org]]: the ROS question-and-answer board. Please tag you questions with "ccny-ros-pkg" as well as any other relevant tags

== Related Software ==
 * [[asctec_drivers]]: (ROS Stack) contains the drivers necessary to communicate with the !AscTec vehicles.
 * [[mav_tools]]: (ROS Stack) contains hardware-agnostic micro-air vehicle tools
 * [[starmac-ros-pkg]]: (ROS Repository) high-level, vehicle-independent (!AscTec vehicles are supported via [[asctec_drivers]] or [[asctec_mav_framework]]) control framework for quadrotors (UC Berkeley)
 * [[asctec_mav_framework]]: An alternative to [[asctec_drivers]]; requires flashing the quadrotor's onboard firmware but provides more capabilities.