This page explains about the shared control files of the different simulators to fly a simulated Crazyflie.
Simple PID controller
A very simple height fixed and horizontal velocity based was build for this simulator that is written in both c and python. These can be found in the folder /shared_controllers and the idea is that they can be used interchangably between de Gazebo and Webots simulation. They are therefore meant to be stand alone.
In webots, change controller to either crazyflie_controller_c or crazyflie_controller_py to try out a simple controller in different languages.
Firmware python bindings
As of this Pull request in the Crazyflie firmware repo it is possible to use the python bindings of the controllers of the actual crazyflie controller directly in webots.
The python bindings only works in Webots for now.
Clone the crazyflie-firmware in another folder, then make the python bindings via these instructions.
Change the controller in the crazyflie robot model in webots to crazyflie_controller_py_firmware_pid, and adjust the following line to point to your crazyflie-firmware repo:
sys.path.append('../../../../../C/crazyflie-firmware')
Press play with the simulator and use your keyboard to control it.
External socket control
There is also an example that shows controlling the crazyflie with an socket connection.
Change the controller to crazyflie_controller_py_socket and start the simulation. Then in a seperate terminal outside of the webots simulator run:
python3 webots/controllers/crazyflie_controller_py_socket/socket_control.py
You can use the arrow keys and q e w s to control the drone in velocity mode.