New ground station and mission control system

[tsaoyu]

We have a nice web-based light ground station system to monitor our boat. It is good enough for simple tasks and missions in this competition.

In a long run, we may need:

1. On server side, better graphical interface on with our existing web-based monitoring page
2. On client side, find suitable mission control system which can display more information at same time https://github.com/nasa/openmct

http://wiki.ros.org/ground_station

[mltomb]

Hello

I found our github few days ago. It is cool to be able to see this type of discussion.

We tried this ground station this year. http://ardupilot.org/planner/docs/mission-planner-overview.html

It was really useful. It can understand multiple protocols in network or serial link. We used mavlink protocol trough wifi.

[Nanoseb]

Thanks for the tip, we tried to use it with ROS some months ago (there is a package to convert ros messages to mavlink) but we had some issues (don't remember what). I think we can give it an other try, having a live map is quite useful. Right now we are using rviz (a ROS ploter, but it is quite basic and not perfectly suited for that).

[tsaoyu]

mltomb, You are welcomed to join our conversation!

We have investigated the possibility in using APM planner as our ground station system. The problem is that we don't have a reliable wireless connection for MavLink. At that moment, we only use a tiny USB dongle for wireless communication.

New we have a more powerful WiFi antenna, it is time for to have another try.

This problem is related to https://github.com/Maritime-Robotics-Student-Society/sailing-robot/issues/139

[griz1112]

Use a RFD900x telemetry radio with mavlink. Has two channels and unreal range 10km with stock antenna up to 40km with upgraded antenna and directional pointing.

[takluyver]

Thanks, I copied the suggestion to #139, which is more about the radio link.