What are the capabilities of the MATLAB Support Package for Parrot drones? How is it different from the already existing Simulink Support Package?

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What are the capabilities of the MATLAB Support Package for Parrot drones? How is it different from the already existing Simulink Support Package?

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MathWorks Support Team
MathWorks Support Team on 24 Apr 2019
The MATLAB Support Package for Parrot Drones
The MATLAB Support Package for Parrot Drones provides an out of the box solution to work with Parrot drones in MATLAB. This support package works with the default factory shipped firmware of the drone that provides a stable flight controller and an inbuilt fail safety mechanism.
The MATLAB support package uses Wifi connection over BLE. This provides higher bandwidth and speed for streaming HD video from the FPV camera and to read drone navigation data.
The MATLAB Support Package also provides interfaces to control a Parrot drone from MATLAB. You can pilot the drone by sending commands to control its direction, speed, and orientation. You can also read navigation data such as speed, height, and orientation using MATLAB commands.
As of R2019a this support package supports the Parrot Mambo FPV drone. The Simulink Support Package for Parrot Drones
The Simulink Support Package for Parrot minidrones lets you build and deploy flight control algorithms on Parrot minidrones and works with a custom Parrot Firmware. This lets you deploy algorithms wirelessly over Bluetooth®. The algorithms can access onboard sensors—such as the ultrasonic, accelerometer, gyroscope, and air pressure sensors—as well as the downward facing camera and supports the Parrot Rolling Spider and Mambo minidrones.

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KAE
KAE on 8 Jul 2019
Beware to anyone considering the Parrot Mambo FPV or Bebop: both are discontinued, see here.

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