Global positioning system more commonly known as GPS is a gadget whose importance is growing in the fields of navigation, tracking etc. Click here for a presentation on the working of GPS, errors associated and programming of the GPS
A lot of work is being done on the GPS( Global Positioning System) at IMSL. Most of this work revolves around how to implement autonomous flight using the GPS. We have 3 GPS receivers and now an additional GPS watch for the purpose of our work. The initial learning was done on the Lowrance Handheld GPS . It was used to log data in the NMEA format.. This was done as a part of a student summer project which gave us a lot of insight to how the GPS works and the NMEA message format and also on the interfacing. Later work was done on the Rockwell Jupiter OEM GPS receiver core . The following projects have been successfully completed using the above GPS.
C code for changing the default setting of the GPS like baud rate, type of sentence ,number of sentences etc both in the NMEA and Rockwell Binary modes. Here are the list of the various C codes that we used to program the GPS . Click here for a detailed document on binary messages and how to program in the binary mode.
Interfacing the GPS with TFX-11datalogger(TBASIC code) and logging of latitude, longitude, speed and heading. This GPS TFX-11 combination was used in a project with ADRDE, Agra to log the trajectory of a paratrooper, a brief report on this
Interfacing the GPS with ADAPT11 micro controller.
The latest addition in our GPS collection in the Casio's GPS watch. Currently work is going on the new GPS receiver JP3 obtained from Falcom which weighs 6.3 gms. This GPS also send data in the NMEA format and additionally it also output in the Sirf Binary format.
