Track rover with the antenna

[c2huc2hu]

Our antenna is directional, the signal is strongest in a ~10 degree window. Thus we need to ensure the antenna is pointing directly at the rover to maintain the strongest connectivity.

Write code to automatically track the rover.

Due Nov. 4

[ZJC1013]

Rasberry pi <-> Arduino <-> Motor <-> Antenna scaning to find the strongest connectivity. Talked to Hudson, the idea is mounting GPS on both rover and the antenna, and figure out the direction (pretty much linear) that the antenna should point to.

[c2huc2hu]

@ZJC1013 chris and I were thinking about other methods for sending gps coordinates to the antenna from the rover/ ground station

• ground station via ethernet to arduino (which we discussed)
• ground station via ethernet to rasp pi via serial to arduino (which we also discussed)
• ground station via ethernet to rasp pi directly to motor driver (not sure if this is physically possible, may need PWM pins, which may or may not be present on a rasp pi)
• ground station via serial to arduino (we would need a 440 MHz connection as well)

Please research option 3 to see if it's possible. Then decide which of the options is the best

[ZJC1013]

Chris L and I talked about this last week. We converged them to the 1st and 3rd choice. I did some search on the PWM and rasp pi, but figured it'd be better if I just go with the 1st one (using ethernet shield).