Mule

Mule is the software component of an in-progress rewrite of the AgOpenGPS project that aims to maximize the project's accessibility, including the UI, upgrading hardware requirements from "Windows Laptop / Tablet" to "Any mobile device running Windows / Linux / Android / iOS", etc.

Plans

Progress Towards Prototype

• Identify components of the original AOG software, so it can be rewritten

  • Active
  • AgIO
  • GPS - Main Screen (FormGPS)
    • Renderer Camera (CCamera)
    • Renderer World Grid (CWorldGrid)
    • Renderer Triangle Strip^[1] (List<CPatches>)
    • Renderer Font (CFont)
    • Renderer Brightness Controller (CWindowsSettingsBrightnessController)
    • Audio Player (CSound)
    • Resource Manager (ResourceManager)
    • Simulator NMEA (CSim)
    • Communication Modules Container (CModuleComm)
    • Communication NMEA Parser (CNMEA)
    • Vehicle Specs (CVehicle)
    • Vehicle Tool (CTool)
    • Navigation (CGuidance)
    • Navigation Line (CABLine)
    • Navigation Curve (CABCurve)
    • Navigation Headland Line (CHeadLine)
    • Navigation Attitude and Heading Reference System (CAHRS)
    • Navigation Path (CRecordedPath)
    • Field Section^[1] (CSection)
    • Field Context^[2] (CFieldData)
    • Field Boundary (CBoundary)
    • Field Tramline Context (CTram)

• Manually program a UI using a provided mock-up as reference

^[1] These are named singularly despite being plurals
^[2] This contains a bunch of data related to the processing of a field, rather than static info about the field itself

Progress towards Front-End Overhaul

• Get Pinion into a working and usable state
• Get Crest into a working and usable state
  • Finish writing the grammar for the parser
  • Develop an API for the parser that is easier to use than the one that's generated by the pest crate.
  • Implement standard CSS properties
  • Implement pseudo-classes
  • Implement at-rules
• Get Peacock into a working and usable state (glue)
  • EARLY (BODGE)
    • build.rs stage that generates .rs files for iced from XML files (templating can't be used?)
  • MATURE
    • Design a standardized Widget trait for traits that implement it to be converted into an iced trait
    • Implement iced widget structs for standard HTML elements (Container, Row, Column, etc)
    • add a 3d-canvas widget
• Put together a mock UI design for Mule's interface
• Use Peacock to create the UI design for Mule (no 3d-renderer)
• Implement the functionality behind the UI in rust

Milestones

• Software prototype
• Front-end overhaul
• Hardware prototype
• Language files (for easy translations)

Noteworthy

• AgOpenGPS Simulation Proof-Of-Concept
  • A simulation that uses the Godot game engine to model tractors' behavior in a virtual setting