As part of the driver's SIG's efforts to add some officially supported GPS
drivers to ROS, I'm proposing a new NMEA GPS Driver (based on the existing
cyphy_ros_gps driver [1]). You can find the driver's wiki page here:
http://ros.org/wiki/nmea_gps_driver
nmea_gps_driver is a simple NMEA driver. It supports reading NMEA strings
from a serial port and outputting the appropriate ROS messages. Currently
supported output messages are sensor_msgs/NavSatFix for positional
information, geometry_msgs/TwistStamped for velocity information reported
by the GPS unit and sensor_msgs/TimeReference to output the current time
according to the GPS unit. This driver is meant to be cross-platform and
avoid a dependency on GPSd.
I've created an API review page:
http://ros.org/wiki/nmea_gps_driver/Reviews/2012-03-05_API_Review
If you are interested in this driver, please take a look at the ROS API of
the nmea_gps_driver unary stack and share your comments on the review page.
If you do leave a comment, please add your name to the list of reviewers
and subscribe to the page in order to receive notifications of replies.
- Eric Perko
[1]
http://www.ros.org/browse/details.php?name=cyphy_ros_gps
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