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A digital (and therefore shareable) floorplan is plainly more useful in a variety of ways than one that exists only on paper
A smartphone camera very quickly turns a non-digital floor plan into a digital one.
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My HOWTO: 1. Obtain laser tape, pencil, and paper. 2. Sketch out floor plan with pencil on paper in rough scale. 3. Take laser tape and take needed measurements. Annotate measurements on your rough scale paper drawing. 4. Go back to desk and open OmniGraffle (or Visio or whatever). 5. Draw up a scale floorplan, exportable into any needed, industry standard formats. 6. There is no step 6. Some variation of this HOWTO…
I bet someone once said the same thing about the laser tape replacing traditional tape measures.
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I was actually beginning work on a similar project. Essentially, it's using a combination of the accelerometer and the gyro to get the phone's position in 3D space. That is, when the accelerometer capture lateral velocity, it knows it's moving in a certain direction at a certain speed (until, of course, it receives an opposite velocity, at which point it stops).
Did you ever manage to get it to be accurate, though? I tried something similar but the accelerometer and gyro were nowhere near accurate enough.
Lately I've seen a lot of app notes and open-source code written by/for amateur drone guidance developers, which I suspect would have helped me a lot.
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I was actually beginning work on a similar project. Essentially, it's using a combination of the accelerometer and the gyro to get the phone's position in 3D space. That is, when the accelerometer capture lateral velocity, it knows it's moving in a certain direction at a certain speed (until, of course, it receives an opposite velocity, at which point it stops).
Did you ever manage to get it to be accurate, though? I tried something similar but the accelerometer and gyro were nowhere near accurate enough.
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A smartphone camera very quickly turns a non-digital floor plan into a digital one.
It could send a photograph of a floorplan, but it wouldn't be editable unless there's some interpolation of the image you photograph. When your original floorplan begins in digital form, it's more-flexible for editing.
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My HOWTO: 1. Obtain laser tape, pencil, and paper. 2. Sketch out floor plan with pencil on paper in rough scale. 3. Take laser tape and take needed measurements. Annotate measurements on your rough scale paper drawing. 4. Go back to desk and open OmniGraffle (or Visio or whatever). 5. Draw up a scale floorplan, exportable into any needed, industry standard formats. 6. There is no step 6. Some variation of this HOWTO…
I bet someone once said the same thing about the laser tape replacing traditional tape measures.
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Did you ever manage to get it to be accurate, though? I tried something similar but the accelerometer and gyro were nowhere near accurate enough.
It's unlikely to be standard inertial navigation, mems sensors drift with dead reckoning integration pretty quickly, even applying more sophisticated kalman filtering may not improve things indoors without GPS (or sufficient travel for GPS even if you could receive it consistently)... But, if you were to add "room-like" assumptions it might improve things pretty well, eg. when integrating a rotation, fit it to a 90 d…
Full article reviewing MagicPlan and RoomScan: http://www.younghouselove.com/2014/03/apps-and-zerts/
Could anyone possibly shed some light on what is used for measurement? gyro?
I was actually beginning work on a similar project. Essentially, it's using a combination of the accelerometer and the gyro to get the phone's position in 3D space. That is, when the accelerometer capture lateral velocity, it knows it's moving in a certain direction at a certain speed (until, of course, it receives an opposite velocity, at which point it stops).
