Simulated GPS

Question

Has the simulated GPS service been implemented and fully tested yet..? And if so, are there any tutorials that explains how to use it with VPL ?

Answer 1

Just to be clear, the simulated GPS is for use on robots in the simulator. It does not behave like a real GPS - it just gives you the coordinates of the robot.

One of the simulation tutorials shows you how to add a variety of sensors to a robot. One of these is the GPS.

There is also the Teleporter service that I released on CodePlex. This will tell you where an entity is without having to add anything to the simulation. You just add a Teleporter to the manifest and tell it which entity to track. You can configure it either through the manifest or a config file. The example shows both methonds.

Trevor

 

Answer 2

 

Hi Trevor.

Thank you very much for the input.

I will have a look at the tutorial and the Teleporter.

Have a nice day

JC

Answer 3

Hi,

if you are talikng about Multiple Simulated Sensors tutorial, then it does not use any GPS sensor. It invokes the Entity UI for integrating sensors with a motor base, and adding GPS using Entity UI does not add GPS rather it adds Compass sensor.

Instead I have also tried to add the GPS entity programmatically with a robot, but the GPS entity never appears in the DSSME, though it appears in the VSE (I have posted a new thread for this)

Omair.