Rf based positioning using phase differences

ginodecock
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Rf based positioning using phase differences

Postby ginodecock » Mon Jun 18, 2018 7:16 pm

There are certain conditions to which the RF-PHY must comply in order to be able to work for phase-based ranging, such as access to I / Q signals and a PLL that continues between TX / RX switching. Does the ESP32 complies with this or is this a limitation by the ESP32?

ESP_Sprite
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Re: Rf based positioning using phase differences

Postby ESP_Sprite » Tue Jun 19, 2018 1:22 am

I think the hardware actually should have support for this (with a few restrictions, as in, if I recall correctly it only works for certain encodings), however the drivers do not have functionality to output the associated data yet. Also, the functionality is mostly untested so we don't know if it works in practice.

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Re: Rf based positioning using phase differences

Postby ESP_Sprite » Tue Jun 19, 2018 5:54 am

Hold that thought: something has been recently merged. Does https://esp-idf.readthedocs.io/en/lates ... nformation do what you want?

ginodecock
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Re: Rf based positioning using phase differences

Postby ginodecock » Sun Jun 24, 2018 7:26 pm

I don't see anything in this documentation that gives access to i/q signals.

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Re: Rf based positioning using phase differences

Postby WiFive » Sun Jun 24, 2018 7:48 pm

Each item is stored as two bytes: imaginary part followed by real part
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ginodecock
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Re: Rf based positioning using phase differences

Postby ginodecock » Sat Jul 07, 2018 7:08 pm

It seems that the ESP32 can not transmit unmodulated carriers and is therefore not supported for phase-based ranging. :cry:

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