Programming a simulation [ROS+Gazebo]

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The most common ros-gazebo quadrotor simulator package is rotors which offer a simulated AR-drone (among others).

You can also look at hector_quadrotor

If your project is not simulation only and you plan on flying using ROS later, you should give a look at rosflight.

I think that your best shot to fly using high level commands in a few days is using RotorS. However, fully understanding the package would take you weeks.

Hi Dylan, since you are asking specifically for books or tutorials, I would like to recommend you a course we have created at the Robot Ignite Academy, that is available online and that deals that type of questions. The information about the course is here: Programming drones with ROS. Check the content to see if that is what you are looking for.

In that course you use an online simulation of the AR.drone to learn how to move it and so on. The simulation is made with Gazebo 7 + ROS Kinetic and runs directly online on your browser so you do not have to install it, just run it using a browser and any operating system (you don't even need to install ROS). If you are in a hurry, I think that is a very convenient option.

The same academy has other courses that can teach you the basics or ROS in case you need it.

You could explore this package as a starting point to simulate an AR Drone in Gazebo.

EDIT: This packagehas the TUM Simulator ported to ROS Kinetic. see: (https://answers.ros.org/question/2516...)

A post by Robohub on basics of AR Drone flight with ROS. Seems have 3 tutorial blog posts.