[AR] Re: New cheap DGPS-RTK
- From: Henry Hallam <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:38:28 -0800
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Ben Brockert <wikkit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's on the high end of hardware for amateur projects, but it's
> incredibly cheap as differential GPS Real Time Kinematics solutions
> cost: the Piksi. http://www.swiftnav.com/piksi.html $2000 for a pair.
>
> No data on its response to high acceleration, but it could be made to
> work with a hovering rocket. It is still definitely in development
> though.
It's derived from a receiver design that was built for use in high
altitude wind turbine prototypes, with accelerations exceeding 10 g.
I'm not sure that the stock Piksi tracking loops are tuned for that,
but it would be a simple adjustment in the open-source firmware.
Henry
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