I have a pixhawk controller and trying to layout the follow me options. As far as I can tell the only mobile GCS that provides "follow me mode" with the controller is Tower's android based GCS. Is there any others people are using?
I also read this for follow me option:
http://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/ac2_followme.html
This only allows the pixhawk controller to follow a GCS without using internet data by using a GPS dongle plugged into your laptop correct?
As far as I can tell an android phone with a usb dongle to telemetry would be the smallest follow me option? Does anyone know of any basic methods for small/accurate follow me tags to be used instead of GCS's?
Thanks
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I have had it track me by walking around with the laptop, so that will work. I don't know that sonar will work very well for tracking, maybe you could use a companion computer and do some sort of visual tracking? I had an idea a while back after seeing an antenna tracker that ibcrazy built that you could do it with a radio signal and 3 directional antennas, but that would be pretty bulky.
I need to track a walking person. Do you know if its possible to get sonar to track a person in an auto mode?
I guess that leaves the option of just the laptop running mission planner when it comes to follow me?
As far as I know tower's follow mode does not work with a rover, at least it didn't last time I tried. It works great with a copter but I couldn't get it to work with rover. I have used follow successfully using a laptop running mission planner with a USB GPS module on the laptop. Quite bulky, but functional. On copter you can use a smartwatch to follow (with Tower), but it still needs to be connected to a phone with the USB telemetry to relay the position info back to the copter. Last I asked the Tower devs have no plan to add a follow option for rover into Tower.
What are you trying to accomplish?