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multi-platform ground station for drones that speak the MAVLink protocol
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Follow-me mode #54

Open dccourt opened 11 years ago

dccourt commented 11 years ago

On devices that support it (i.e. most modern phones and tablets that have geolocation), it'd be cool to be able to use the HTML5 location APIs to enable automatic follow-me mode.

At it's simplest, this would mean simply automatically setting the guided-mode waypoint based on current device coordinates, but it's probably more useful to maintain some small distance between current location and target waypoint.

Perhaps that could simply be a timer-based queue of coordinate updates, linked to a configuration on the UAV that tells it to accept a fairly lax radius for the waypoint.

pchickey commented 11 years ago

This is a worthwhile feature to add, but I'm overcommitted at the moment, can someone volunteer to work on this?

dccourt commented 11 years ago

I'm up for working on it once I get up to speed.

wiseman commented 11 years ago

Some previous discussion of this idea: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mavelous/0pGSTRlYemA/lPizEr0zygcJ

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:00 AM, David Court notifications@github.comwrote:

I'm up for working on it once I get up to speed.

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