ADAFRUIT GPS

Hey everyone, i'm trying to create a project where I can detect objects in front of a user but also detect this persons location. I am using adafruit's ultimate GPS, and while the parsing example they give is fine and works great it interrupts my sonars measurements, giving me an incorrect reading. I wanted to know if there was a way where i can still acquire a users location while still giving correct distance measurements.

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My loop is at the bottom of this code

#include <Adafruit_GPS.h>
#include <SoftwareSerial.h>
const int pwPin1 = 7;
const int pwPin2 = 6;
const int pwPin3 = 4; // Pins for sending PWM to Sonars
//motor A connected between A01 and A02
//motor B connected between B01 and B02
int STBY = 10; //standby
//Motor A
int PWMA = 13 ; //Speed control
int AIN1 = 9; //Direction
int AIN2 = 8; //Direction
//Motor B
int PWMB = 5; //Speed control
int BIN1 = 11; //Direction
int BIN2 = 12; //Direction
long pulse, inches, duration;
String stringOne; 

// If you're using a GPS module:
// Connect the GPS Power pin to 5V
// Connect the GPS Ground pin to ground
//   Connect the GPS TX (transmit) pin to Digital 3
//   Connect the GPS RX (receive) pin to Digital 2
// (you can change the pin numbers to match your wiring):
SoftwareSerial mySerial(3, 2);
// If using hardware serial (e.g. Arduino Mega), comment out the
// above SoftwareSerial line, and enable this line instead
// (you can change the Serial number to match your wiring):
//HardwareSerial mySerial = Serial1;

Adafruit_GPS GPS(&mySerial);

// Set GPSECHO to 'false' to turn off echoing the GPS data to the Serial console
// Set to 'true' if you want to debug and listen to the raw GPS sentences. 
#define GPSECHO  true

// this keeps track of whether we're using the interrupt
// off by default!
boolean usingInterrupt = false;
void useInterrupt(boolean); // Func prototype keeps Arduino 0023 happy
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////GPS Tracker Begin/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Interrupt is called once a millisecond, looks for any new GPS data, and stores it
SIGNAL(TIMER0_COMPA_vect) {
  char c = GPS.read();
  // if you want to debug, this is a good time to do it!
#ifdef UDR0
  if (GPSECHO)
    if (c) UDR0 = c;  
    // writing direct to UDR0 is much much faster than Serial.print 
    // but only one character can be written at a time. 
#endif
}
void useInterrupt(boolean v) {
  if (v) {
    // Timer0 is already used for millis() - we'll just interrupt somewhere
    // in the middle and call the "Compare A" function above
    OCR0A = 0xAF;
    TIMSK0 |= _BV(OCIE0A);
    usingInterrupt = true;
  } else {
    // do not call the interrupt function COMPA anymore
    TIMSK0 &= ~_BV(OCIE0A);
    usingInterrupt = false;
  }
}
void setup()  
{ stringOne = String("Sonar 3");
//////////////////////////////////////////////////TB6612FNG////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
  Serial.begin(115200);// connect at 115200 so we can read the GPS fast enough and echo without dropping chars
  pinMode(STBY, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(PWMA, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(AIN1, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(AIN2, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(PWMB, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(BIN1, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(BIN2, OUTPUT);
  //stringOne = String("Sonar 3"); 
  // 9600 NMEA is the default baud rate for Adafruit MTK GPS's- some use 4800
  GPS.begin(9600);
  
  // uncomment this line to turn on RMC (recommended minimum) and GGA (fix data) including altitude
  GPS.sendCommand(PMTK_SET_NMEA_OUTPUT_RMCGGA);
  // uncomment this line to turn on only the "minimum recommended" data
  //GPS.sendCommand(PMTK_SET_NMEA_OUTPUT_RMCONLY);
  // For parsing data, we don't suggest using anything but either RMC only or RMC+GGA since
  // the parser doesn't care about other sentences at this time
  
  // Set the update rate
  GPS.sendCommand(PMTK_SET_NMEA_UPDATE_1HZ);   // 1 Hz update rate
  // For the parsing code to work nicely and have time to sort thru the data, and
  // print it out we don't suggest using anything higher than 1 Hz

  // Request updates on antenna status, comment out to keep quiet
  GPS.sendCommand(PGCMD_ANTENNA);

  // the nice thing about this code is you can have a timer0 interrupt go off
  // every 1 millisecond, and read data from the GPS for you. that makes the
  // loop code a heck of a lot easier!
  useInterrupt(true);

  delay(1000);
  // Ask for firmware version
  mySerial.println(PMTK_Q_RELEASE);
  }
//////////////////////////////////////////////////GPS END////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 
//////////////////////////////////////////////TB6612FNG END INTRUCTIONS///////////////////////////////////////////////////////
void move(int motor, int speed, int direction){
//Move specific motor at speed and direction
//motor: 0 for B 1 for A
//speed: 0 is off, and 255 is full speed
//direction: 0 clockwise, 1 counter-clockwise
  digitalWrite(STBY, HIGH); //disable standby
  boolean inPin1 = LOW;
  boolean inPin2 = HIGH;
if(direction == 1){
    inPin1 = HIGH;
    inPin2 = LOW;
  }
  if(motor == 1){
    digitalWrite(AIN1, inPin1);
    digitalWrite(AIN2, inPin2);
    analogWrite(PWMA, speed);
  }else{
    digitalWrite(BIN1, inPin1);
    digitalWrite(BIN2, inPin2);
    analogWrite(PWMB, speed);
  } 
}

void stop(){
//enable standby
digitalWrite(STBY, LOW);
}
////////////////////////////////////////////////////END TB1266FNG INSTRUCTIONS//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
uint32_t timer = millis();
void loop (){
           pinMode (pwPin1, INPUT);
     pulse = pulseIn(pwPin1, HIGH);
     inches = pulse / 147; //147uS per inch
        if (inches < 15){
          move (1, 150, 1);//motor 1, full left
          move (2, 0, 1);//motor 2, full left
          delay(100);
          stop();}
          //delay(250);
      Serial.print("Sonar 1,");
      Serial.print(inches); 
      Serial.print("in ");
      Serial.println();  
   pinMode (pwPin2, INPUT);       
   pulse = pulseIn(pwPin2, HIGH);
      inches = pulse / 147; //147uS per inch
      duration = pulseIn(pwPin2,HIGH);
      if (inches < 15) {
          move (1, 0, 1);//motor 1, full left
          move (2, 150, 1);//motor 2, full left
          delay(100);
          stop();}
          //delay(250);
      Serial.print("Sonar 2,");
      Serial.print(inches);
      Serial.print("in ");
      Serial.println();   
   pinMode (pwPin3, INPUT);
   pulse = pulseIn(pwPin3, HIGH);
      inches = pulse/147;  //147uS per inch
      if (inches < 15)
        { move (1, 150, 1);//motor 1, full left
          move (2, 150, 1);//motor 2, full left
          delay(100);
          stop();
          delay(2000);}
      Serial.print("Sonar 3,");
      Serial.print(inches);
      Serial.print("in");
      Serial.println(); 

 if (! usingInterrupt) {
    // read data from the GPS in the 'main loop'
 char c = GPS.read();
   // if you want to debug, this is a good time to do it!
   if (GPSECHO)
    if (c) Serial.print(c);
 }
   // if a sentence is received, we can check the checksum, parse it...
  if (GPS.newNMEAreceived()) {
     //Serial.println(GPS.lastNMEA());   // this also sets the newNMEAreceived() flag to false
     if (!GPS.parse(GPS.lastNMEA()))   // this also sets the newNMEAreceived() flag to false
      return;  // we can fail to parse a sentence in which case we should just wait for another
 }
//if millis() or timer wraps around, we'll just reset it
if(timer > millis()) 
    timer = millis();
// approximately every 2 seconds or so, print out the current stats
if (millis() - timer > 2000) { 
  timer = millis(); // reset the timer
    Serial.print("\nTime: ");
    Serial.print(GPS.hour, DEC); Serial.print(':');
    Serial.print(GPS.minute, DEC); Serial.print(':');
    Serial.print(GPS.seconds, DEC); Serial.print('.');
    Serial.println(GPS.milliseconds);
    Serial.print("Date: ");
    Serial.print(GPS.day, DEC); Serial.print('/');
    Serial.print(GPS.month, DEC); Serial.print("/20");
    Serial.println(GPS.year, DEC);
    Serial.print("Fix: "); Serial.print((int)GPS.fix);
    Serial.print(" quality: "); Serial.println((int)GPS.fixquality); 
  if (GPS.fix) {
        Serial.print("Location: ");
        Serial.print(GPS.latitude, 4); Serial.print(GPS.lat);
        Serial.print(", "); 
        Serial.print(GPS.longitude, 4); Serial.println(GPS.lon);
        Serial.print("Location (in degrees, works with Google Maps): ");
        Serial.print(GPS.latitudeDegrees, 4);
        Serial.print(", "); 
        Serial.println(GPS.longitudeDegrees, 4);
        Serial.print("Speed (knots): "); Serial.println(GPS.speed);
        Serial.print("Angle: "); Serial.println(GPS.angle);
        Serial.print("Altitude: "); Serial.println(GPS.altitude);
        Serial.print("Satellites: "); Serial.println((int)GPS.satellites);
      } 
   }
}

I think the problem is that your code is blocking (pulseIn(), for example) and you are not using interrupts to read the GPS.

Try setting usingInterrupt true:

// this keeps track of whether we're using the interrupt
// off by default!
boolean usingInterrupt = false;

i changed the interrupt to true but the same thing keeps occurring, how would i implement an interrupt

The code is blocking, simply spending too much time waiting for events like pings, GPS characters on input, and especially delaying.

Get rid of the delays. ALL OF THEM. The computer can do nothing while delaying. Study the Blink Without Delay example that comes with the Arduino software to see how to use millis() instead, and for more complicated projects study this tutorial.

The program is quite complicated and the entire approach needs to be changed.

Google "non blocking pulsein()" for lots of discussion on pulsein options. Good luck!