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TREMOR GCS progress

Posted by Ravi Gaddipati on May 1, 2010 at 1:30pm
May_01_10_2
Some more progress on the GCS. I integrated a line builder and line manager. The line builder contains the editor to edit GPS coordinates of the line, as well as options for line thickness and color. The line manager imports these coordinates as a set, and given a name. This clears up the line builder, allowing multiple lines to co-exist.

The Line builder can import a list of GPS coordinates from a text file with the format:

lat lon
lat lon
...
I plan on adding a 3rd dimension, but i don't yet have a barometric pressure sensor.

This is zoomed in to show the Open Street map layer.

May_01_10_1
The line appears shifted from the road, but it is really aligned. The line right now is at an elevation of 2500 km, so the shifting is due to the perspective distortion. Any lower, the line disappears into the ground (the globe has elevation data). I need to figure out how to have the line at ground level.
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  • Miles June 15, 2010 at 6:13pm
    Good to hear progress is being made. Are you going to integrate it with MEGA by any chance and will you have the function of dynamic re-tasking while in flight?
  • Ron Jacobs June 15, 2010 at 8:52am
    aRavi

    Sounds very cool. Take your time, make it right. Look forward to further progress.
  • Ravi Gaddipati June 15, 2010 at 8:43am
    It will be capable of full control from the ground, I plan on adding joystick support, as well as connecting a traditional transmitter to a computer much like simulators use.

    Progress is on hold while I work on my flight controller, I am going to rewrite the code for the GCS to clean it up (I will probably rewrite again after that one more time). Sorry for the lack of progress, I have been really busy with high priority stuff!
  • Ron Jacobs June 15, 2010 at 8:02am
    Is this really a ground control station or a ground monitoring station? Semantics only, not being high and smarty or anything.

    As for names, Nothing wrong with Tremors unless its an acronym... :)
  • Ron Jacobs June 15, 2010 at 7:57am
    So its not really a HUD, but the OSD?
  • Ron Jacobs June 15, 2010 at 7:56am
    Hah, there you go already asked...:p
  • Ron Jacobs June 15, 2010 at 7:55am
    I agree re: dials. Dials make it look good an dhappening, but for a GCS simpler is better with emphasis on showing where the airframe is on the map, I say.

    How does the HUD work since none is on the plane to see it?... ;)
  • Miles June 15, 2010 at 5:17am
    Ravi what happened to your GCS, any updates yet?
  • Miles May 3, 2010 at 10:06pm
    If you do put a HUD Overlay on the video means you will have two cameras. One being pilot view (from the nose) and another one being a gimbal camera that can be operated by the payload operator.
  • Miles May 3, 2010 at 10:05pm
    Put the HUD either Left or Right Top corner and all mission critical information below it. Dont forgot a section for waypoints so you can see what waypoint its currently at and what is the next waypoint.
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