Ultra Wideband Realtime Location System using ESP32 and Unity

[@IuliusCurt]

In the framework of your airplane trilateration image, if all sensors overestimate, then the intersection is a triangle rather than a point. Just an idea, you could calculate the centre of this triangle rather than hardcoding corrections.

[@luiswhatshisname7667]

@46:00 I was watching other ESP32 videos and they said that power cables to the ESP32 were a problem. kzbin.info/www/bejne/roHPf5KKoJiJgrM... the other problem was out of sinc serial communication kzbin.info/www/bejne/roHPf5KKoJiJgrM ... but every ESP32 is different.

[@ytfp]

I'd honestly wait until Adafruit or someone like that takes a crack at it. The in depth complicated documentation needs to be concentrated down and made much simpler and some decent example libraries need to be made. If the manufacturer can not help you (as seen in their sales comments), then it is likely that there might also be mistakes in their hardware design as well. At the very least, customer support seems to be nill.

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[@aaryananand7288]

Can you do this with BLE instead of UWB? The dw1000 boards are kinda expensive…

[@itsmetoo9]

Hi, I recently got 4 ESP32 UWB module and 1 ESP32 UWB Pro with display module. I started experimenting with one or two beacons and the one with display as a TAG. And I ran EXACTLY in the same issue of loosing connections at 80cm or less. It drove me crazy. Till I had the idea to drop the tag one and use another module as the tag. Tadaaaa! I have precise measures at 10m+ without problem, even in 3D and even with a light wall in the way. What a difference! So my idea is that you might have a defective module in your setup... just an idea 🙂

[@skyline128]

Any advice on this? I'm looking to create a class project using UWB modules with unity for a mobile game

[@AdityaMehendale]

The distance from the anchor to the "boat" can be estimated either by a time-of-flight (that would affect the round-trip-time infinitesimally - remember 1ns is a 15cm round-trip) or by RSSI. I suspect that the tags use a combination of these two. Depending on the initialization of the ESP32, I can imagine that a few ns are added here and there. Similarly, dielectrics and reflectors (wood, flesh, walls, plants) shall create multi-path reflections. If you put your hand in between the anchor and the boat - how much does the reported distance change? What "band" (UWB) is used? This is a nice concept in terms of its low-effort deployment; I expect some maturity and learnings by various users (like you) to incrementally improve the precision over the coming months. If several anchors could talk to each other (in addition to talking to the boats) this might too add a layer of self-calibration the the holistic system. Cheers!

[@michaelneubauer4401]

I worked a bit with UWB and those Decawave Chips. So regarding your questions: They only use Time-Of-Flight. I can tell you, that (at least with the newer Decawave 3000 Chips), things like wood or a hand don´t change the measured distance at all. It is quite astonishing how good this stuff can work. This is the same technic that Apple is using for their new Air Tags for this neat localization feature. I can also tell you, that currently developing stuff for all of this (especially if you want to work with iPhones), is extremly painfull. Everything is under NDA and you get almost no information from Apple, Decawave or NXP (who also produce pre-production Chips with UWB).

[@dondykeman1140]

Fascinating… honestly it’s good to learn that sometimes other folks (besides me…) end up having problems that just seem beyond working out (although I usually get stumped way earlier in the task!!). I always enjoy these videos and often try some variation! Sorry these devices didn’t live up to their promised function but I really enjoyed seeing the thought process beside designing the system once’s again!!

[@ismail_aydemir_youtube]

Hello. Bir buttun ile butona basılması ile nodemcu dan progmem içindeki wav dosyasından (viole. h) ses çalmak istiyorum. Aslında buton ile değil saat ile alarm saati eşit olduğunda yapmak istiyorum. ama wav dosyasındaki sesi progmem içindeki nodemcu da farklı sekmede olan progmemden sesi çalamıyorum. nasıl bir kod yazılmalıdır bilginiz var mı?

[@Bigman74066]

I don't know how the library code works, but I can imagine that mixing up interrupt priorities can really mess with the accuracy of your measurements (?)

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Time to replace sony’s HORRIBLY OVERPRICED XR body trackers for XR apps! Thanks!

[@郑曦-w4g]

hi, I finally received the ESP32 UWB chip, I compiled the tags and anchors, but when I run unity, the tags on unity are not moving, can you give me some advice?

[@Altharion]

As always, thank you so much for these videos ! OK this time it doesn't work as hoped, but you obvioulsy spent a huge amount of time and you give your work at the end, this is absolutely great ! I hope that someone will eventually figure it out because it could be the basis of something great in an escape room. Looking forward to your next videos :) Thanks again !

[@chantana.c]

Besides when adding eg. Gps, gprs call, the loop delay adds up and makes distance even wrong. This is impossible to calibrate even for every pair of anchor and tag in a large scale. Further, the makepython A9G shield sim sometimes disconnect without any reason after running for a while. What a waste of time.

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[@gohlaysiong]

In your positioning.cs, in line 39, float V2 = (anchors[2].position.x * anchors[2].position.x) + (anchors[2].position.z * anchors[2].position.z); in line 43, float y = ((r1 * r1) - (r3 * r3) + (V2) - (2 * anchors[2].position.x * x)) / (2 * anchors[2].position.z); i checked the formular in Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True-range_multilateration#Three_Cartesian_dimensions,_three_measured_slant_ranges , it should be position.y instead of position.z , i rewrite: line 39, float V2 = (anchors[2].position.x * anchors[2].position.x) + (anchors[2].position.y * anchors[2].position.y); line 43, float y = ((r1 * r1) - (r3 * r3) + (V2) - (2 * anchors[2].position.x * x)) / (2 * anchors[2].position.y); Not sure is this the reason that your solution doesn't work?

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[@Textras]

Bluetooth Low Energy it is. Anchors in the wild of cities just wont cut it. Great vid thank you.

[@Dustmadeout]

You should try the DW3000 modules on higher frequency and apply filters. Apparently range is lots of meters.

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[@neilc1964]

Just a little point GPS Satellites are NOT in geostationary orbit.

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[@skuizhopatt5318]

Working in UWB. 11:00 Antenna delay is likely the calibration you are looking for... Maybe. Anyway thé DW chip itself provides a readout of thé ToF in RCTU, so Time unit not (centi)meters. So it looks also likely that the software used is making a wrong assumption about how to concert tof to distance (?)

[@PlayfulTechnology]

Thankyou for the insight! Yes, I'm sure that the device *should* be capable of much more and I suspect you're correct that the software isn't behaving correctly, but I just don't have the resources to put in to wading through all that datasheet for what is an incredibly edge use-case (tracking of objects in an escape room!)

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[@jihamih1219]

Would it be precise enough to do human body motion with tracking of several probes on the suit?

[@PlayfulTechnology]

No. If you want to so skeletal tracking I recommend picking up a Kinect sensor - you can get the 1st gen. ones pretty cheap and they're easy to hack.

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[@BadIdea1123]

This was a couple of years ago but wondering how you went with it ? I think your inaccuracy might have something to do with teh default antenna delay. I didnt see anywhere in the video that you calibrated it, so starting twith that might get you some better results

[@ZerFbyDJoN]

+1 I would like to know what happened with all of these. I saw (and would like to buy them) DWM3000 chip, maybe this chip will be better. 🧐

[@NavinF]

Love the video and your descriptive code. Btw at 39:35 you used the closed form solution. You want to use the iterative solution that minimizes L2 error instead.

[@ColinBroderickMaths]

It certainly is challenging but it can be done. It's even worse with the DW3000 because the driver provided by Qorvo is closed source. You can certainly get much better range than you experienced with proper configuration, at least up to 100 metres line of sight. But you do have to accept limited accuracy because the antennae on those modules have a significant directional bias, meaning the range measurement depends on the relative orientation of the devices.

[@silascheeseman4371]

Excellent intro to these devices. Thank you. BTW... at 3:15 you state that GPS satellites are "geostationary" aka. geosynchronous. They are not. GPS satellites orbit and are always in motion.

[@wojciechzielinski7825]

Maybe it is stupid and wrong, but have you checked that SPI config is valid for ESP32? I don't have esp32 but I was playing with DWM1000 few years ago and it was an issue on some boards.

[@scienceraven1200]

An actual company says that the max precision is 50cm. quote : the location of UWB signals can be determined with an accuracy of less than 50 centimeters (with optimal conditions and deployment), and extremely low latency. (inpixion company home page)

[@scienceraven1200]

Hi that's an awesome channel, marvelmind robotics does an ultrasound beacon with 20 mm precision however it's about 500 dollars for the minimum 35m range version for all the beacons. perhaps someone will get a germanium 1thz receptor in there and it will be 5mm precise that would be cool. sounds like a new company needs to change these boards ultrasound swarm beacons are not sold open source afaik for rpi that's a dilemna cos i want some for a map robot.

[@googleyoutubechannel8554]

Anyone know if the ESP32 UBW software ecosystem has gotten any better to the point it's simple to implement for an individual hobbyist?

[@leon13noelspy]

One of the problems is likely that the timers are not accurate enough for sub centimeter tracking. You are basicly sending a signal with a time value and the tag will then calculate the runtime. If the distances between your stations is to small you won't have much to work with. On a room scale it might work a bit better. Also you could calculate position by having the circles overlap and using the center of that as your location. That way it should also jerk less. These devices are for distances of up to 40 meters (or 120m for the other version). At those distances the offset of 50cm is more negligible. I think with a better timer it might work better though still

[@Arik1989]

I'm almost sure that's exactly the issue here, I experimented a bit with dwm1001 and got similiar results at close ranges

[@audas]

I am only just beginning (today) to look at these boards, and I have seen minimum distances of 45cm - this sounds very plausible - although why he could not replicate his original results seems like a coding issue.

[@siete8932]

I've taken the documents you've shared but I'm having problems. The position of the anchors on the scene changes when I launch the game and my tag doesn't move. I'm having trouble understanding.

[@adrianotavares8415]

Hello! At most, how many TAGs can you use in these systems? Example, in a system with 20 anchors, can I use just one TAG or can I use more than one TAG simultaneously?

[@siete8932]

Hello thanks for this video. I would like to use this technology to track a robot mower on an 800m2 plot of land. Do the anchors have enough reach for an 800m2 plot?

[@stubb1qaz]

Your code is almost identical to the example code given by the MakersFab - did the manufacturer of the board steal your code and claimed it as their own?

[@irweezyy]

Is there a way to determine the distance between 2 of these devices? I would like to work on a project that will use 2 of these devices to determine their distance from each other. something very simple, ie. if 1 foot apart, turn led green, if 5 feet apart, turn led yellow, if 10 feet apart turn led red.

[@MakerTutor101]

Thank for sharing

[@PlayfulTechnology]

No problem

[@MM-oh3vr]

GNSS/GPS satellites are NOT in geostationary orbits, but their ephemeris is known. Thus, you can calculate their positions.

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Where do I find the schematic to make my own board? I can't seem to find it on the GitHub link provided?

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[@joegoetz3705]

Have you tried greater distances, like 10 - 500 metres or more? I suspect it is the same situation as survey. All distances will have a small error that is more noticeable at short ranges, less so at greater distances. I suspect that someone looking for an item that is big enough to house the arduino tag, they should be able to see it at 1/2 metre.

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Could you do a video of what to use or improve in case of disasters like earthquake locating uwb or Lorawan thank you.

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What if the tag and each anchor is combining their distance evaluation and that’s why the result seems to be doubled?

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[@stubb1qaz]

The source of error is the delay of the antenna itself. The antenna delay can be grater or lower depending on the antenna design but the value is fixed for every antenna. The error should be the same no matter the sensing distance. The chip itself doesnt know the antenna thats attached to it so it cant compensate for it. Cheers!

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Hi How to implement it outdoors, where anchors are not in the same location ?

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[@tsumokd7616]

Hello. I am trying to communicate two ultra wideband bu01 dw1000 chip using esp32 d1 mini without any breakout board. What i did was to etch a pcb board and only solder the necessary pins to communicate 2 uwb with each other. The pins soldered was the SPI pins (CLK, MOSI, MISO), CS pin ,IRQ pin, RSTn, VSS, and VDD3v3. But it just doesn't work. Any ideas why?

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Separate CS for both? Check power etc.

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Hi, I'd like to measure breathing using UWB radar. Is this possible? Thanks

[@Oktheorignal]

Chest mounted gyroscope would be better

[@techindetail]

Hi. Naveen here. Thanks for showing this. Nice talking with you on facebook.