I’m wondering how to get access to the post-flight mission after creating an auto-pilot mission in QGroundControl and deploying the boat. While I can re-open the mission that I programmed in QGroundControl, there were a few times when our BlueBoat didn’t quite make it on the set mission path, and I want to use its speed and relative location to determine the connection between the BlueBoat mission and our affixed water quality sensors.
Thanks in advance from someone who is still really new to using the BlueBoat for research.
There are some different ways to do this, depending on what you need.
The autopilot stores binary “DataFlash” logs (.bin files) of everything it’s aware of and trying to do during a dive (think like an aeroplane black-box), which you can access through the BlueOS Log Browser. If you click the green play button on a log it will open up a log investigation tool that can visualise the path for you, as well as data from the various log messages the autopilot records.
QGroundControl also records the MAVLink messages from the autopilot in telemetry logs (.tlog files), which can be replayed within QGC, uploaded for exploration into the web-hosted version of the log-viewing tool built into BlueOS (or the beta version, for the latest experimental features), or explored / have data extracted using one of the other available tools. Note that both QGC and Log Viewer have some basic data export options as well.
Have a try of those options, then feel free to follow up if you get stuck on subsequent steps
If you’re doing research you may want to delve into QGIS, but if you have specific needs that you think others could benefit from too they could potentially be integrated into Cockpit, or some other tool as seems relevant (possibly a BlueOS Extension?). Always open to discussing the interesting things people are trying to do, and whether/how they can be streamlined
