A.R.Drone Developer Guide - Abstract

11.6 Run the Navigation program
First unpair your drone if you flew with an iPhone before !
Although the demonstration program can configure the WIFI network itself, it is safer for a
first test to manually connect your workstation to the drone WIFI network, and potentially
manually configure its IP address to 192.168.1.xxx and subnet mask to 255.255.255.0, where
xxx>1.
Once this is done, you can test the connection with a ping command :
$ ping 192.168.1.1
If connection is successful, the ping command will return you the time needed for data to go
back and forth to the drone.
You can then launch the navigation program :
What to expect ?
You should see a GUI showing the current drone state. If connection with the drone is successful,
the central graphs entitled theta,phi and psi should change according to the drone angular
position. In the following screenshot the drone is bending backwards.
Now press the button you chose as the select button. Press it several times to make the motors
leds switch between red (emergency mode) and green(ready to fly mode).
Clear the drone surroundings and press the button you chose as the start button. The drone
should start flying.
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