Starter Set HW v4.9 is a precise indoor positioning and navigation solution for various applications including autonomous robots, autonomous drones, autonomous vehicles. It also works very well for precise localization and distance measurement in industrial applications, for example: tracking of relative position of vehicles and assets; increasing safety by preventing of violation of geofencing zones; improving productivity by creating heatmaps of movements of vehicles inside a plant or a warehouse. Content:
This is a NIA only system. Use NIA SW from the SW pack: https://marvelmind.com/pics/marvelmind_SW.zip. For IA, check IA starter sets: https://marvelmind.com/products/. There are two HW variants of the system:
We always recommend to check your country’s local regulations. Marvelmind Indoor Navigation System is an off-the-shelf indoor navigation system designed to provide precise (±2cm) location data to autonomous robots, vehicles (AGV), and copters. It is also used to track other objects that the mobile beacon installed upon, for example, virtual reality (VR) systems, helmets for construction workers or miners, etc. The navigation system is based on stationary ultrasonic beacons that are united by radio interface in a license-free band (433 MHz or 915/868 MHz). The location where a mobile beacon installed is calculated based on the propagation delay of an ultrasonic signal (Time-Of-Flight or TOF) to a set of stationary ultrasonic beacons using trilateration. Key requirements for the proper system functionality:
Distance between beacons
Coverage area
Location precision
Location update rate
Power supply
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External:
Weight
Mobile beacon from Starter Set:
Beacon size
Description
Starter Set HW v4.9 is a precise indoor positioning and navigation solution for various applications including autonomous robots, autonomous drones, autonomous vehicles. It also works very well for precise localization and distance measurement in industrial applications, for example: tracking of relative position of vehicles and assets; increasing safety by preventing of violation of geofencing zones; improving productivity by creating heatmaps of movements of vehicles inside a plant or a warehouse. Content:
This is a NIA only system. Use NIA SW from the SW pack: https://marvelmind.com/pics/marvelmind_SW.zip. For IA, check IA starter sets: https://marvelmind.com/products/. There are two HW variants of the system:
We always recommend to check your country’s local regulations. Marvelmind Indoor Navigation System is an off-the-shelf indoor navigation system designed to provide precise (±2cm) location data to autonomous robots, vehicles (AGV), and copters. It is also used to track other objects that the mobile beacon installed upon, for example, virtual reality (VR) systems, helmets for construction workers or miners, etc. The navigation system is based on stationary ultrasonic beacons that are united by radio interface in a license-free band (433 MHz or 915/868 MHz). The location where a mobile beacon installed is calculated based on the propagation delay of an ultrasonic signal (Time-Of-Flight or TOF) to a set of stationary ultrasonic beacons using trilateration. Key requirements for the proper system functionality:
Additional information
433 MHz (EU), 915/868MHz (US/EU)
Questions and Answers
How to find the manual and plugs/connections?
– Operating Manual: https://marvelmind.com/pics/marvelmind_navigation_system_manual.pdf
– Placement Manual: https://marvelmind.com/download/ => https://marvelmind.com/pics/Marvelmind_Robotics_ENG_placement_manual.pdf
The only connector required is a USB connector. It is coming along with the modem.
Stationery beacons on the floating structure
Please, elaborate. Is it a question?
Yes, we have had cases, when stationary beacons are actually moving. So, normally, stationary beacons are installed on the ceiling or walls. But when you have some big – a ship or a huge track or an excavator – then you can install the stationary beacons on that huge thing and the map will be moving along.
If you have something floating, we suggest outdoor protected devices:
– https://marvelmind.com/product/super-beacon-outdoor/
– https://marvelmind.com/product/industrial-super-beacon-plastic/
– https://marvelmind.com/product/beacon-industrial-super-beacon-metal-25/
Please, see the presentation: https://marvelmind.com/pics/marvelmind_presentation.pdf => slide “Huge AGV, transport and people”
Is this compatible with Raspberry pi or Pixhawk flight controler ? Thanks
– Yes, you can easily connect it to PixHawk: https://marvelmind.com/drones/.
– Yes, you can easily connect to Pi as well: https://marvelmind.com/download/ => https://marvelmind.com/download/#ros
With Super-Beacons you can get PX4+PixHawk with Location+Direction:
See a video help: https://youtu.be/52e6eTZapJ8.
Do I need to buy the “MMSW0001: 100Hz NMEA0183” license for pixhwak to work with autopilot mode?
Not necessarily. The license emulate 100Hz GPS data. But it works with regular 8-10Hz as well.
Is it possible for indoor positionning in a smallroom to use only one mobile beacon and modem? (not using the 4 other beacons). thanks
Our Indoor “GPS” works as a real GPS or any other trilateration system. For 3D tracking, you need distances to 3 or more stationary beacons withing 30 meters with direct line of sight/hearing. For 2D – 2 or more. For 1D – 1 or more. Thus, if only 1D tracking is enough for you, yes, 1 beacon per room would be sufficient.
je n’arriver pas a détecter les balises quand je les connecter a mon pc
– Please, follow the Operating Manual closely.
– Follow the step by step guidance.
– There is also a troubleshooting chapter
Usual suspects:
– Drivers are not installed
– USB cable is not suitable or even for power and no data
– DIP switch is in off position the beacons are simply not on
Are the tracking beacons waterproof?
This type – not.
But we have outdoor versions:
– https://marvelmind.com/product/starter-set-industrial-nia-01/
– https://marvelmind.com/product/beacon-industrial-super-beacon-metal-25/
– https://marvelmind.com/product/industrial-super-beacon-plastic/
– https://marvelmind.com/product/modem-hw-v5-1-outdoor/
– https://marvelmind.com/product/super-beacon-outdoor/
– https://marvelmind.com/product/mini-rx-ip67/
Demos:
– https://youtu.be/cIA2Gc5KaQI
– https://youtu.be/u1JoiM_M7VE
Hello,
Can I use this in conjonction with my GPS on board of my PIxhawk drone running PX4? Use the American GPS system to navigate in flight and seemlessly transition to the local navigation system to land precisely? (i.e on a yable indoors)
Hello Ben,
Let me explain what is supported right away and what is available in principle:
– We stream out data in NMEA0183 format. Thus, any device supporting native GPS format (NMEA0183) shall be able to see our beacons just as a regular GPS device, i.e. no real integration or format conversion is required
– Additionally, see the integration already done by the ArduPilot community: https://marvelmind.com/drones/ => https://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/common-marvelmind.html
– PX4, as far as we know, supports uBlox format (we may be wrong, because we are not flying ourselves). We do support uBlox format as well, but only for Super-Beacons. See more:
a) https://marvelmind.com/pics/marvelmind_px4_integration.pdf
b) https://marvelmind.com/product/mmsw0003/
– Yes, it should be possible and not so difficult to make the seamless handover Outdoor to Indoor, because all basic ingredients are there. However, I am rather sure that additional coding on PixHawk side for the GPS inputs switchover would be required. May be, a bit more than that, because coming from +-10m to +-2cm – there will be always a jump. The question is how the autopilot would react to the jump
BR,
Maxim