Hello,
I am planning to control the CF without motion tracking system. So I want to use a flow deck to stabilize CF at a certain y and a certain z position. At the same time, put a Z ranger deck facing forward so that I can get get zero motion in y and z direction but control the motion in x direction. Is it possible to use both flow deck and Z ranger deck at the same time?
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How many decks can I use for a single CF
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Re: How many decks can I use for a single CF
Hi!
Sounds like an exciting project!
No that is not possible at the moment.
Currently the Flow deck driver is using the z-ranger driver for the distance sensor on the flow deck, and there can only be one instance of the z-ranger driver. There is support for using multiple distance sensors though and I think that it should be possible to update the flow deck driver (mostly copy/past from z-ranger driver) to handle the distance sensor it self.
I think the reasoning behind the design was that it is not physically possible to use the flow deck and z-ranger at the same time as they booth are mounted under the CF, and therefore should be no need to support both decks at the same time. It might be a good idea to separate the drivers and if you do the job, please issue a pull request.
It should be fairly easy to make your own "z-ranger deck" with the distance sensor facing forward if you like. You will find schematics and information about the z-ranger on the wiki https://wiki.bitcraze.io/projects:crazy ... ds:zranger
We have also started working on an "obstacle avoidance" deck https://www.bitcraze.io/2017/10/obstacl ... l-testing/ which probably is what you are looking for. We don't know when it will be available though.
Good luck!
Sounds like an exciting project!
No that is not possible at the moment.
Currently the Flow deck driver is using the z-ranger driver for the distance sensor on the flow deck, and there can only be one instance of the z-ranger driver. There is support for using multiple distance sensors though and I think that it should be possible to update the flow deck driver (mostly copy/past from z-ranger driver) to handle the distance sensor it self.
I think the reasoning behind the design was that it is not physically possible to use the flow deck and z-ranger at the same time as they booth are mounted under the CF, and therefore should be no need to support both decks at the same time. It might be a good idea to separate the drivers and if you do the job, please issue a pull request.
It should be fairly easy to make your own "z-ranger deck" with the distance sensor facing forward if you like. You will find schematics and information about the z-ranger on the wiki https://wiki.bitcraze.io/projects:crazy ... ds:zranger
We have also started working on an "obstacle avoidance" deck https://www.bitcraze.io/2017/10/obstacl ... l-testing/ which probably is what you are looking for. We don't know when it will be available though.
Good luck!
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Re: How many decks can I use for a single CF
Thanks for your reply. I will talk to my advisor about this.kristoffer wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2017 10:17 am Hi!
Sounds like an exciting project!
No that is not possible at the moment.
Currently the Flow deck driver is using the z-ranger driver for the distance sensor on the flow deck, and there can only be one instance of the z-ranger driver. There is support for using multiple distance sensors though and I think that it should be possible to update the flow deck driver (mostly copy/past from z-ranger driver) to handle the distance sensor it self.
I think the reasoning behind the design was that it is not physically possible to use the flow deck and z-ranger at the same time as they booth are mounted under the CF, and therefore should be no need to support both decks at the same time. It might be a good idea to separate the drivers and if you do the job, please issue a pull request.
It should be fairly easy to make your own "z-ranger deck" with the distance sensor facing forward if you like. You will find schematics and information about the z-ranger on the wiki https://wiki.bitcraze.io/projects:crazy ... ds:zranger
We have also started working on an "obstacle avoidance" deck https://www.bitcraze.io/2017/10/obstacl ... l-testing/ which probably is what you are looking for. We don't know when it will be available though.
Good luck!