Cerulean Standard Packet Protocol

This document is a work in progress.

Overview

Cerulean Ping Protocol is the Application Programming Interface (API) used by many of Cerulean sonars. It is also used by the Blue Robotics Ping 1D and Ping 360 sonars. This is the protocol used to communicate between a host computer and the sonar devices. It is also the format of the data stored in log files (which typically have the filename extension ".svlog").

Nomenclature

Some shorthand used in the packet definitions.

numonic
u8	unsigned 8 bit number
bool	unsigned 8 bit field, 0 is false, anything else is true
char	generally holds an ascii character
char[]	an array of char of indeterminate length
char[5]	an array of 5 char
u16	unsigned 16 bit number
u32	unsigned 32 bit number
float	32 bit floating point number