Piksi Multi

The positive x axis (or maybe the negative x axis) points along the long side of the orange board, towards the massive metal package. The y axis points along the short side of the orange board. The z axis points upwards (i.e. "up" for the board).

Interfacing between ros/rviz and piksi multi on unix based os (done on ubuntu)

prereq: ROS indigo or jade

• Building libsbp

cd mysrc # cd to a directory where you will download and build libsbp

git clone https://github.com/PaulBouchier/libsbp

cd libsbp/c

mkdir build

cd build

cmake ../

make

sudo make install # install headers and libraries into /usr/local

• Installing swiftnav_piksi driver

cd catkin_ws/src # your catkin workspace

git clone https://github.com/PaulBouchier/swiftnav_piksi.git

cd ..

catkin_make

Building piksi console from source

git clone https://github.com/swift-nav/piksi_tools.git

cd piksi_tools

git checkout v0.30.9

cd tasks

./setup.sh -x install

cd ..

sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

sudo python setup.py install

After software is successfully installed, https://docs.swiftnav.com/wiki/ROS_Integration_Guide is a complete guide on usage between ROS and the piksi