I made a little more progress on this tonight, but I'm also starting to see just how far there is to go. While I can still get an awesome positioning signal for a sensor (specifically, angular position relative to the lighthouse), there's still a ton of work to be done before you can spit out a 3D position in a Cartesian coordinate system.
In my attempts to understand the signals, I've been relying heavily on this page for its deconstruction of the lighthouse signals: https://github.com/nairol/LighthouseRedox
So, here's my current To Do List:
- Clean up code
- Must be done-- right now it's just a hacked together POC
- Add support for at least 5 sensors
- Don't think this will be too bad. Should jsut be duplicating what's already there.
- Figure out the math/ algorithm for generating a full pose
- This is starting to look pretty wicked. If anybody else is knowlegable and interested in this area, I could use some help here.
- Decode the OOTC frame
- Thanks to nairol's work, I've come a long way. But the payload is still very much a mystery. I've started looking into the payload, but haven't made much progress.
- Figure out how to decode data in the presence of 2 lighthouses
- I'm guessing that the OOTC frames are just interlaced here. Shouldn't be too hard to check this out.
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