Ardupilot Code Expert

[iampete (Peter Hall)]

Why fake up a GPS rather than using the external position MAVLink messages? (vision position and vision speed) They work well and are used by a number of different external position systems, for example:

Aggressive indoor copter flying with SteamVR tracking

Having got bored of not being able to fly due to the CoronaVirus lock-down and trying to justify my recent purchase of a VR headset I have been playing with using a SteamVR tracker for position feedback. Thanks to PYopenVR I was able to interface SteamVR with MAVProxy to stream vision position and vision speed MAVLink messages to copter. This works in the same way as the T265 camera however in this case the information is coming in from an external score, rather than a self-contained unit on t…