Re: Using a Polyhemus Fastrak tracker

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Scott McMillan (mcmillan++at++cambridge.com)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 08:46:31 -0500

On Feb 11, 10:12am, Brian Corrie wrote:
> Subject: Using a Polyhemus Fastrak tracker
> Hi All,
>
> Not exactly a Performer question, but I imagine someone has run into this at
> some point. We have a Polyhemus Fastrak 6 DOF tracker that we are
intergrating
> into a VE system we are developing. Is anyone aware of an API/device driver
> that exists for the beast? The only documentation I have at the moment is
info
> about what bits and bytes are coming in over the serial cable. We have been
> using the system as part of another package but we want to roll our own as
> well. Surely someone has done something like this already. Looking for it on
> an Octane if that makes any difference...
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
>
> Brian

I worked on this a few years ago at NPS. The following link takes you to the
tech report the described the device driver for the project:

http://www-npsnet.cs.nps.navy.mil/publications/mcmillan.fastrak_96.ps.Z

At some point in the past (and maybe presently) the NPSNET software was
freely available which contained the C++ class (FastrakClass, me thinks).

scott

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