flockofbirds
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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

Last updated 12 September 2005 21:38:45