Problem getting Simulink Real-Time to connect to my AR Drone target using ARDrone Dev. Kit v1.1 (I.P. address issue?)

I have the wifi connection established with the drone (using I.P. address 192.168.1.1 as indicated by Parrot) and after pinging this from the command window, there is indeed a connection established. However, after running the setup script and deploying the model to hardware (ctrl+B), I am not able to "connect to the target." (I.e., I use the "slrtexplr" command from the command window to set the communication settings (see screenshot 1 below), but it continually says it is unable to connect, despite all of the settings matching the quadrotor specs).

It's weird too because the simulink model allows me to connect to something external and I can still run it in real time, but nothing happens.

Does anyone have any idea why this connection to the target cannot be established?

Answer 1

[Navaneeth Raman]

Hello,

You cannot use Simulink Real Time for this workflow since the target would need a Simulink real time kernel. The ARM Cortex processor on the AR Drone runs on a Linux kernel. The Development package uses another product called Simulink Desktop real time which is different from Simulink Real Time.

You can find about Simulink Desktop Real Time here: http://www.mathworks.com/products/simulink-desktop-real-time/features.html#key-features

HTH, Navaneeth