This project intends to carry on an experimental study for using alternative ways of localizing moving objects, e.g. robots or drones. The localization will be both absolute (aka GPS) or relative to each other (in the case for instance of a swarm of drones). The traditional way a drone knows about its position is by GPS. However it consumes a huge amount of energy for each drone. An alternative to using GPS is using a technology such as Decawave that relies on Ultra Wide Band (UWB) communication between an object and a fixed anchor in order to position each one relatively to an anchor, with a medium distance (100m) and good accuracy. While some preliminary experiments have been conducted in a static environment, a moving environment has not been tested.
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