NVIDIA has released the code to Project Redtail on GitHub. Based on this arXiv paper, the framework’s now available including ROS nodes using Caffe/TensorRT for end-to-end inferencing (TrailNet) and navigational control of Pixhawk-compatible drones flying in GPS-denied areas.
We’ve been trying to run the redtail demo on our TX2 to see if we can display a steering angle given the input video stream from on-board camera (this is the first step of our project). However, while checking if the DNN node is working properly, using the commands in (ROS Nodes · NVIDIA-AI-IOT/redtail Wiki · GitHub), we encounter an exception thrown by the config.py python file stating ‘model_dir’ does not exist.