flockofbirds

Ascension Flock of Birds position tracker. More...

Ascension Flock of Birds position tracker.

The flockofbirds driver provides a basic interface to the ascension Flock of Birds 6DOF position tracker.

This driver ignores all commands and configuration requests and simple provides a continuous stream of position2d updates from a single flock of birds controller.

There is currently no support for multiple trackers.

Compile-time dependencies

• none

Provides

• position2d

Requires

• None

Configuration requests

• none

Configuration file options

• port (string)
  • Default: "/dev/ttyS0"
  • The serial port to be used.

• baudrate (integer)
  • Default: 115200
  • The baud rate to be used.

• voidsize (integer)
  • Default: 50
  • Size of transmitter 'radius' in mm, ie minimum value axis can have without collision with tx

Example

driver
(
  name "flockofbirds"
  provides ["position:0"]
  port "/dev/ttyS0"
  baudrate 115200
)

Author:

Toby Collett