Hey guys,
Sorry if this has been posted already (I couldn't find anything, at least not anything recent on this topic).
I'm an undergrad EE student. As part of a project, my team and I are trying to build an automated drone (about 500 x 500 CM in size) that would be able to fly indoors (as part of the Jerry Sanders competition). Part of automating the drone is building some type of location awareness into it. For this purpose we are developing an indoor positioning system. We're looking into various wireless technologies and are looking closely into Zigbee and Bluetooth solutions. Here's an example of what I would like to be able to do;
Place six to nine stationary Zigbee (or other) nodes around a 50 x 50 ft. course; place one node on the drone which would fly within said 50 x 50 ft. area. I would then like to be able to track the location of that drone with an accuracy of about 1 ft. by (possibly) using a combination of RSSI, TOA (time of arrival), time difference of arrival (TDOA, by interacting with multiple nodes simultaneously in a mesh configuration), and even angle of arrival (AoA), and round flight time if possible. Are there any chips available which would allow me to do something like this? Also, is there another technology which would be better suited for this purpose?
I would greatly appreciate the TI community's help.
I'm starting this topic as a discussion so that others could benefit from this system as it develops.
Thank you again and best regards,
Ali
