Comment by John Maffetone on February 7, 2013 at 11:50pm

Very neat. Seems like this would be a great feature with the android app being developed since most devices already have a built in GPS. You can just have your android phone or small tablet with you and have your drone follow you.

Comment by Nathan DuCray on February 8, 2013 at 4:08am

Hah, I love flying there at Berkeley Marina! Those silver tables are a great place to setup my laptop and be out in the middle away from people. The wind just makes it more interesting. ;)

Comment by Nathan DuCray on February 8, 2013 at 4:25am

Is it possible to use the gps location from a Bluetooth smartphone and send it to APM? Maybe andropilot can add follow me support so the gps reciever can be in my pocket and not in my hand...

Comment by Noth666 on February 8, 2013 at 4:39am

Neat!

Distributor Comment by Dany Thivierge on February 8, 2013 at 7:03am

FollowMe =  check (sure need fine tuning...) 

next... obstacle avoidance and collision detection.... go guys we are waiting for the future to arrive! 

hehe nice job Chris and crew.  We are getting there!

Dany

Comment by Rana on February 8, 2013 at 9:14am

Very nice Chris ! Can you pls share the flight log of the APM and the Flight log of Mission Planner ?

Comment by Ryan Alexander Bahr on February 8, 2013 at 9:38am

I've been meaning to get to this, but an App for Android such as this may be able to transmit the data to the APM seamlessly over bluetooth (class one would get ya 100M) or TCP, allowing easy to implement Android following with software already available. I would be wary of the accuracy depending on your device.

 I don't have an Android and having issues with the drivers on the USB bluetooth device a friend gave me, as well as trying to get rid of vibrations on my new frame that seem to be affecting any alt-hold mode. If I test it myself before someone else I'll post a video.

Comment by Drone Savant on February 8, 2013 at 10:13am

What is the default behavior while in this mode when GPS is lost? Back to loiter? Are there any checks for spurious GPS data? Nice work for sure, scary to allow all those unknown / untrusted variables to be in control. 

Developer Comment by jasonshort on February 8, 2013 at 10:46am

I can't wait to try this. Nice job and glad to see we're moving towards building applications on top of the flight code. Perhaps swarms are next? ;)

Jason

Comment by c j g on February 8, 2013 at 10:47am

For android, i use this app, which sends the GPS Data of the phone (NMEA) over bluetooth to my notebook. But I only have used it with other applications (for tracking).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.meowsbox.btgps&am...

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