GPS functional tests

[mbardwell]

Summary

It's nice to have automated tests that check the validity of the GPS data coming from our sensor.

rel #39

Acceptance Criteria

• [x] identify which information is critical to pod performance
• [x] write functional tests to assert the validity of that info. Something that compares GPS data to a 3rd party source maybe*
  • are we in North America?
  • are we connected to any satellites?
  • if the comparison is too hard, we can brainstorm other options
• [ ] CI?
• [ ] Summarize NMEA format of GPS measurements into Navigation Design Plan document
• [ ] Parse GPS measurement results into python application for plotting

[Iyury1]

Test summary documented on Google Drive: Albertaloop\1 - Technical Division\1 - Electrical Team\1 - Software Group\6 - Testing Documents\T_SWE_TESTING - GPS.gdoc

GPS will have to be replaced because this product is reliant on the Arduino Serial.Print() function, which stops working when any other interrupt source occurs.

[mbardwell]

Test summary documented on Google Drive: Albertaloop\1 - Technical Division\1 - Electrical Team\1 - Software Group\6 - Testing Documents\T_SWE_TESTING - GPS.gdoc

GPS will have to be replaced because this product is reliant on the Arduino Serial.Print() function, which stops working when any other interrupt source occurs.

Could you push your code and link to any resources you are using to debug this problem?

[Iyury1]

I added some more results for stationary GPS measurement outputs to the following file on our Google drive: Albertaloop\1 - Technical Division\1 - Electrical Team\1 - Software Group\6 - Testing Documents\Restuls\GPS-2022-07-15.gdoc

We need to copy these results into a txt files and parse the input into a Python file so we can plot the lat-lon coordinates and calculated distance.