Render Orientation

This is a tool I built to render 3D orientation of a IMU device that sends attitude and heading readings through a serial port.

Depndencies

The tool depends on SDL2 and OpenGL.

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev libglfw3-dev libglew-dev libglm-dev

Build

To build the file,

1. Make a new folder in the project directory called build.
   • mkdir build
   • cd build
   • cmake ..
   • make

Usage

• Any Attitude & Heading data send over serial needs to follow the format "pitch,roll,yaw\r". All values can be of floating point but they need a comma(,) delimiter.
• Fix the serial baudrate to 115200.
• By default the serial port initiated in the program is /dev/ttyACM0. However, you can change the port in the script.
• You can render a simple 2D representation of the orientation using SDL2 or a 3D representation using GLFW GLEW GLM(OpenGL).
• If you are using OpenGL, remember to keep the shader files in your project directory.

Tested On

1. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS