Does the Parrot Minidrone Hardware Support Package support the usage of Flypad and/or streaming video from the Parrot Mambo drone to smartphone in R2020a?

With the Parrot Minidrones Support Package from Simulink

https://www.mathworks.com/hardware-support/parrot-minidrones.html

it is possible to develop the algorithm and directly interact with the drone and download the code with Simulink. For example, you can use a flight Controller Interface or the keyboard to control the drone.

What I want to know is if the Parrot Flytab could also be used with code generated from Simulink?

So I want to be able to control the drone outside without having a wifi connection between the drone and my computer.

Additionally, I‘m interested in the camera for the Mambo drone.

So I want to know if it is possible to stream the video to my Smartphone if I‘m using my own Simulink flight algorithm instead of standard Software?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

The Keyboard control block shipped in R2019a can allow the user to control the drone from Simulink:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2020a/supportpkg/parrot/ref/keyboardread.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2020a/supportpkg/parrot/ug/keyboard-control-of-drone.html

The Parrot Flypad won't work with the custom Parrot firmware that is shipped with Simulink Hardware Support Package for Parrot. The MATLAB answer reply here is correct

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/460529-control-the-parrot-mambo-with-the-simulink-compatible-firmware-through-the-flypad-phone

With regard to the camera, the Parrot Hardware Support Package supports obtaining the downward-facing camera data in Simulink and doing image processing. See this topic:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2020a/supportpkg/parrot/ref/getting-started-with-parrot-minidrone-vision.html

and this example:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2020a/supportpkg/parrot/ref/color-detection-and-landing-parrot-example.html

However, streaming video of the downward-facing camera to host PC/smartphone is not available.