viewPort

Table of contents
3.Introduction
4.Specification requirements
5.Solutions suggestions
6.The magnetic fields sensors
7.The inclination measurement system
8.The gyroscope
9.The data acquisition system
10.Communication system
11.The power supply
12.Realisation of the PCB
13.The embedded system
14.Static Library Util.a
15.ViewPort
16.Xcompass
17.Sensors controller commands
18.Test
19.Future improvements
20.Conclusion
21.References

15.           ViewPort

Structures

The two programs ViewPort and Xcompass have the same structure and are composed by 3 functions:

  • 'main()' that is the entry point of the program and realise the main task.

  • The function 'usage()' return the help message for the app describing the different commands.

  • 'signal_handler()' catch the interrupt signal (SIGINT, SIGQUIT and SIGKILL) from the environment and handle it to close the program properly.

Viewport is one of the two front-end interfaces to the card. It is a console-based program. Its main purpose is to debug the card.

viewport

If successfully started, any character receive by the port will be outputted to the screen. If the flow of stream matches one of the keyword of the file HIGHLIGHT, it will be highlighted according to the corresponding colour.

To facilitate the usage of the navigation’ system without a graphic interface, we implemented commands accordingly to the keys pressed on the keyboard:

Instructions

Functions

ASCII keys

GET_CARD

Return the card’s number used

Ctrl + a (1)

RESET_SYSTEM

Restart the system

Ctrl + b (2)

GET_OUTPUT

Return the value of the output requested

Ctrl + c (3)

EXIT

Quit the program

Ctrl + e (5)

SAVE_DATA

Save the data on the file chosen at the start of the program

Ctrl + f (6)

GET_MAGNETIC_NORTH

Return the angle with the magnetic north

Ctrl + g (7)

GET_TILT

Return the inclination according to the two axis

Ctrl + h (8)

SET_CALIBRATION

Calibrate the different module on the system

Ctrl + i (9)

START_CONTINUE_MODE

Start the continue mode

Ctrl + l (12)

PAUSE

Allow to do a pause during the execution of the program

Ctrl + p (16)

GET_ROTATION

Return the rotation speed given by the gyro

Ctrl + r (18)

GET_POWER

Return the different reference voltage

Ctrl + s (19)

GET_TEMPERATURE

Return the temperature on the different sensors

Ctrl + t (20)

GET_USAGE

Return the usage of the program

Ctrl + u (21)

GET_VERSION

Return the version of the program

Ctrl + v (22)

GET_PONG

Return ‘PONG’ if the system is started

Ctrl + x (24)

TEST

Save the different output on a file every seconds

Ctrl + z (26)

TEST_COMPENSATION

Allow testing the compensation on the different axis.

Ctrl + q (17)

NO_INSTRUCTION

No instruction send

No key pressed (-1)

Table 12: Viewport's instructions

Any different key pressed will be directly sent to the port.

These different instructions are ideal to debug the Smart Compass card.

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