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2 nodes who have compatible parameters and are within range should sync automatically, a solid green LED indicates success. This should be good enough for testing for now.
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A directional antenna would be combined with 2 servos, controlling its pan(yaw) and tilt(pitch).
The antenna would have a GPS chip on board in a fixed location relative to the antenna. The distance and offset would be measured and inputted on the ground staiton, and sent to the Nucleo.
During operation, ground station would stream the GPS position of the drone to the tracking antenna system. From there, simple trigonometry can be applied to find the correct pan and tilt.
Note for self: earth is round
Questions to be answered
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The tracking system is currently open-loop, as there is currently no way of knowing how much and which direction the antenna is off by.
Plans of adding a camera to the tracking antenna have been proposed for monitoring its performance visually in ground station. Would it be possible for the ground station to also perform some simple CV on it and track and drone visually, then send this information back to the Nucleo?
GPS tracking can be used as a fallback in this case.
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