Posted by Chris Anderson on December 20, 2009 at 10:30am
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Tonight (Sunday) we'll do podcast #12, which everyone here is welcome to participate in by listening to the chat live above and commenting and asking questions via the DIY Drones chat function. We'll be starting at 9:00 PM PST and will probably go about 40 minutes.
This week we'll by joined by Abe Bachrach of MIT's quadcopter/indoors navigation team, talking about their platform and technology. Here's a video to remind you:
As always you can subscribe to the podcast here. Tonight's livecast will be recorded and available as a podcast on Monday.
If you are able to set up a pair of receivers (one on UAV and one static/ground unit) you can use RTK - where the static/ground one sends a correction feed (~120Byte/s) to the rover. With quality receivers you can get sub-centmeter accuracy even with L1 only receiver.
Of course we're all on a tight/personal budget and can't afford the 'Novatel' units, so it's good to know there is an open source solution: http://gpspp.sakura.ne.jp/rtklib/rtklib.htm
Cheers,
Mungewell.
RTKLIB: An Open Source Program Package for GNSS Positioning
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If you are able to set up a pair of receivers (one on UAV and one static/ground unit) you can use RTK - where the static/ground one sends a correction feed (~120Byte/s) to the rover. With quality receivers you can get sub-centmeter accuracy even with L1 only receiver.
Of course we're all on a tight/personal budget and can't afford the 'Novatel' units, so it's good to know there is an open source solution:
http://gpspp.sakura.ne.jp/rtklib/rtklib.htm
Cheers,
Mungewell.