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[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

For the case of farms, I suspect that it'd be better to use a different system to position a tractor. Like, set up poles with lights on them and have a 360 degree camera atop the tractor roof or something. If you undo the location of the light poles and the bearings to at least two, you have position.

Maybe make them use RGB light and have distinctive color-changing patterns so that they can be distinguished between.

We're gonna need something like that anyway, for high-precision tasks like having self-driving trucks align themselves to loading bays.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That's definitely possible, but is way more expensive than using an existing system like GPS.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 8 points 5 months ago

Cameras are not too great. Ground-station-based radio positioning systems, some of which can be used to enhance GPS precision to centimeters, already exist. (The ground stations, in a mesh tens of kilometers apart, get their position to that precision by averaging GPS over several days.) I'm pretty sure there is already a system on non-GPS frequencies too.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I also suspect vibration from the motor may make camera/vision based triangulation more difficult.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 points 5 months ago

Maybe when they have some time, Ukraine can sell Finland’s farmers some tractor modifications to use inertial navigation or other jamming-resilient techniques they will have honed to perfection.