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As others mentioned this sounds unrelated to GPS. Have any colleges been working on a local and self hosted server / transceiver to control tractors and remove
by LinuxBender 4y ago
As others mentioned this sounds unrelated to GPS. Have any colleges been working on a local and self hosted server / transceiver to control tractors and remove this single point of success? Maybe even take GPS out of the equation by having perimeter or fence-line beacons to create a virtual map for the tractor? Bonus if someone made a kit to retrofit old tractors. I could have some fun with my 1947 Fordson 2N driving itself.
- myself248 4y agoI can't imagine relying on private SBAS when DIY RTK is so cheap and easy now. Sparkfun will set you up with your own base station hardware for under $1000, I wonder what a year of inmarsat corrections costs.
- michaelt 4y agoHistorically (perhaps prices have come down a lot in the last decade with the introduction of the L5 signal?) getting RTK corrections from a third party meant you only needed one $20,000 receiver, instead of two.
- myself248 4y agoYeah, um, I have a base+rover pair, with the base set up in my kitchen window and the rover on my quadcopter, for around $600 total... no internet required, no corrections source, all the math done inside the F9P itself by default, or offboard with rtklib if I'm feeling masochistic... It's gotten incredibly affordable.