The Key Behind The Scenes Of Drone Formation Performances During The Holidays - High-Precision Indoor Positioning

­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ During holidays such as the Spring Festival, drone formation performances have become one of the common entertainment programs. In the early years, outdoor drone formations were the mainstay, while indoor drone formation performances have not been commercialized. UWB positioning technology effectively solves the problem of indoor UAV formation positioning, since 2019, the first step of indoor UAV formation companies at home and abroad to take commercial performance, almost all of them come from the LinkTrack UWB high-precision positioning system released by Nooploop.

­­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ In the cluster formation, users will generally integrate IMU (gyroscope + accelerometer) with UWB to obtain higher accuracy, smoother data, higher refresh rate positioning effect, Nooploop focuses on UWB as the only positioning source solution, for this purpose, 100 positioning tag positioning tests are built simultaneously, note: the only positioning source is only UWB Oh
~ The testing process includes:

  • Logo positioning effect (10*10 array, 2023Logo)
  • Wireless setting, one-key base station coordinate calibration function demonstration

­­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ This video shows the process of switching from a 10*10 array to a 2023 pattern, during which were:

  • In the process of static real-time positioning, the jitter of the tag is basically within 10cm;
  • The tag and the base station do not need to be on the same plane, and the base station does not need to be built on the same plane to complete 3D positioning;
  • During the logo switching process, multiple staff members move the tag in the array, so there is occlusion between the tag and the base station, which increases the positioning jitter, but there is no unstable positioning situation such as wild value.
  • There is a slight deviation in the label anchor in some logos, which has a great relationship with the accuracy of label position deployment, and the logos are all human eye deployment labels, and professional instruments are not used.

­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ This video shows the wireless setup and base station coordinates one-click calibration process:

  • Through the wireless setting function, users can view all tags, base station working status, and device information online, and also support functions such as modifying parameters and one-click over-the-air firmware upgrade (OTA);
  • Through one-click calibration, users can complete the calibration of base station coordinates in a few minutes, making it possible to use it out of the box, and the flexibility of the system is greatly improved.