Ground Control Station

Hi,

I am currently working on creating a ground control station for a tiltwing UAV. The basic information needed for the Ground Control Station to display is a live video feed and the GPS location of the UAV.

I am a newbee to GCS design and would appreciate any help. I was thinking of using the Ground Control Station offered by the ArduPilot GCS, but I would like to remove some of the widgets, and add the video link to it. But I'm not sure on how to edit the code. I have been researching on ways to edit it, but in vain :(

Thanks in advance,

Kartik

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3D RoboticsPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on March 22, 2011 at 3:53pm
The Happy Killmore GCS includes a live video feed and everything else you'll need. Before you ask for help in writing yet another GCS, please check out what's already available.

http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/HappyKillmore
Permalink Reply by Kartik Chandrasekhar on March 22, 2011 at 4:21pm

Thanks a lot Chris, I will look into it :) Just wondering, is there a way of editing the unwanted instrument data e.g. altitude/vertical speed - because the budget for the project doesn't allow me to get these sensors, so they wouldn't be doing anything.

 

Thanks again,

 

Kartik.


DeveloperPermalink Reply by Doug Weibel on March 23, 2011 at 9:38am
The HK GCS is not open source. Another GCS being used with APM is QGroundControl which is open source, and has many things that can be changed like deleting instruments without changing the code.

qgroundcontrol.org

ModeratorPermalink Reply by Zach Bayne on March 23, 2011 at 10:13am

3D RoboticsPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on March 23, 2011 at 10:42am
Zach: the open code in the repository is not up to date and does not reflect the latest version of the GCS. I think Happy Killmore is still deciding what the long-term open/closed, free/paid strategy will be for the GCS.
Permalink Reply by Paul Mather on April 11, 2011 at 10:31pm

My code is still open-source.  http://code.google.com/p/happykillmore-gcs/source/browse/

 

Also, you can enable/disable any of the instruments you want by going into File, Settings, Instruments and un-checking them.

Permalink Reply by Prindi Wibowo on March 22, 2012 at 8:02pm

Hi Paul...

I want to start learning from your code. I just wanna try to build my own GCS. What language programming in your code?
please your suggestion what subject I have to learn?

thank you Paul...

Permalink Reply by Paul Mather on March 22, 2012 at 9:22pm

Visual Studio 2005, VB.NET.

Permalink Reply by Prindi Wibowo on March 23, 2012 at 4:28am

thank you a lot Paul for your response, Could you tell me architecture of your application? because I confuse with your structure code where I start from? if you dont mind to tell me ur personal mail?

Permalink Reply by Paul Mather on March 23, 2012 at 4:38am

happy at happykillmore dot com

Permalink Reply by Ayush Gupta on June 16, 2012 at 10:46am

Hi Paul,

Are you planning to implement MAVlink 1.0 anytime soon and are there more features (like HUD display) coming??

Ayush.

Permalink Reply by Paul Mather on June 16, 2012 at 1:52pm

I don't have any immediate plans. Right now, I don't have an APM2.

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