AutonomyLab/ardrone_autonomy — pull request #44 by mikehamer (2012-11-28 12:44:15+00:00)
Title: Enabling full realtime video and navdata

This branch is a further extension of the functionality in #43. In this branch I have enabled realtime publishing of /ardrone/navdata,mag,imu topics as well. Furthermore, this branch allows realtime publishing of video frames. The branch also includes speed improvements for the navdata pipeline. I haven't considered speed of the video pipeline as I have no idea what it's doing (I never use video), and it is fairly slow (30Hz) anyway.

However, making the changes in the above branch has indicated that the current architecture doesn't really fit the future direction of the driver, so perhaps we need to consider a few architectural changes so that making realtime stuff work isn't such a hack...

I suggest we continue this discussion in #42.