Re: Using RSSI to locate an object

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From: Phil Allison
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:01

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"Josh916" <jkacen@gmail.com

** Really desperate Groper Alert !!


> The project is to locate a r/c boat in a roughly 2 to 3m^2 water
> filled box, hence the transmitters or recievers will only be on the 3
> or 4 walls of the box.


 ** Huh  ??

 This is even  LOONIER that I thought !!


> It will need to be fairly accurate considering the size of the box
> relative to the size of the boat (i.e down to cm's).
>
> We are also considering placing a webcam above the box and using image
> processing to locate the boat, however I thought we might get more
> accurate results using RSSI.


**  Well, you thought wrong.




......   Phil

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