Hi all,
Similar to the post found in Autopilot app development, I am looking for a way to use the track follower service to follow a path that has already been planned based off absolute coordinates. We are looking at applying this to a scenario where gps way-points have already been designated, and the Amiga will be able to start at a certain point and travel along the path, without it having been recorded by the Amiga. I’ve had a look at the track follower and recorder examples and see that the Amiga currently follows coordinates relative to the base station. Our application will be in different areas each time so will be using different base stations. Absolute coordinates will streamline this process.
Hey @PatrickD,
Yes, the relative coordinates have been a challenge for us as well, so we are planning to moving away from that soon. In the meantime, what we are doing is writing some quick conversion functions wiht the base station location as input.
Thanks for getting back to me. I have done the same for the moment but am yet to test if it works and will update here if it does. I noticed the gps.proto file has a ‘GpsCoordinates base_coords’ field in ‘RelativePositionFrame’. Will this info appear on the Amiga brains gps screen only if the base coordinates are known? I have had to hard code the base station coordinates in the conversion script so far.
Yeah, currently we don’t have them showing on the UI… That’s fixed on our new releases.
Also, whatever RTK provider you are working with must be pretty easy to get the coordinates to the base station you are using.