ROS Developers LIVE-Class #5: Simulating a Drone from Scratch

In this live show we are going to solve a question about Simulating a Drone from Scratch! This is a question asked by Daniel Jeswin from India at our questions page (http://www.theconstructsim.com/ros-qa/).
// MAIN QUESTION SECTION:
▸ How can I simulate a drone in ROS from scratch? I refer to the making of the URDF file. So we are showing in this section the details about how to create your drone simulation by analyzing the sjtu_drone package. We will analyze how the SDF description of a drone for Gazebo simulator has been structured, which plugins are used and which control is it using, so you can copy or adapt to your own drone.
// ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS SECTION: On this section, many other questions will also be answered briefly. // ROS USEFUL TOOLS SECTION In the section of useful tools, we are going to show the Dynamic Reconfigure tool, used to configure ROS programs parameters on the fly.

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// RELATED LINKS:
▸ Ask your question for the next Live Show here: http://www.theconstructsim.com/ros-qa/
▸ ROS Development Studio: https://rds.theconstructsim.com
▸ Robot Ignite Academy. Online academy to learn ROS with a browser: http://www.robotigniteacademy.com
▸ The Construct public repo of simulations: https://bitbucket.org/account/user/theconstructcore/projects/PS
▸ SJTU drone packages: https: //bitbucket.org/dannis/sjtu_drone
▸ A good description of how drones work and how the SJTU drone simulation is structured: http://www.robotics.sei.ecnu.edu.cn/ros2016/docs/Danping%20- % 20UAVNavigation.pdf
▸ How to convert SDF model to URDF: https://youtu.be/8g5nMxhi_Pw
▸ The Dynamic reconfigure: http: //wiki.ros.