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Very interesting concept. This is very interesting for application in geodesy/ airborne gravimetry, where the Velocity and kinematic acceleration is of great importance. Thanks Ariel.
I love the idea of DePIN, they are the only crypto projects i join. People on their own deploying a physical network. Off oading that cost to the public in the hopes that it will be worth it all. I thought about this during covid for something like folding@home when i was donating my compute power, and turned out this idea is already a thing (DePIN). Rewarding real world work with tokens, which are virtually "free" to the project managers in order to create something great together. The key is to reward ppl that do it right, and not get a repeat of projects that reward ppl in seemingly meaningless ways.
Thank you for sharing this information! I am on the Physics and Robotics Research Team under Dr. Lucia Riderer at Citrus College. We are currently building an autonomous rover and I have been looking into Mchenry's work. It is great to hear this information directly from him!
I think if you want to obtain accurate position estimates for all vehicles in a swarm (in order for instance to follow a given flight path accurately in the global frame) you'd still need at least 3 vehicles with GPS (or any other absolute position measurement). Then all other vehicles can estimate their positions using range measurements to these 3 vehicles.
I have absolutely 0 experience with navigation systems. But Kerbal Space Program, and the incredible "easy to understand" description of events (along with these absolutely fantastic analyses) by Dr. Kruizinga made this video one of the most interesting things I've ever learned. Thanks 😊 Would love to learn more about passive sonar... but it might be too secret!
