Tiny & affordable system for scalable & accurate 3D positioning

This project is about a miniaturization of the Vive Tracker by HTC. It allows sub-millimetric 3d positioning at scale, and embeds a 9DoF IMU with sensor fusion. The entire project is open source, all the materials can be found below.

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Awards / Publications

Awards:

• HaD Human Computer Interface prize

• HaD Square Inch Contest: best project prize

• HaD Connected World Contest: best project prize

Research:

UbiComp19 - HiveTracker: 3d Positioning for Ubiquitous Embedded Systems.
Cedric Honnet, Gonçalo Lopes
DOI - Open Access

AH18 - HIVE Tracker: a tiny, low-cost, and scalable device for sub-millimetric 3D positioning.
Darío R. Quiñones, Gonçalo Lopes, Danbee Kim, Cédric Honnet, David Moratal, and Adam Kampf
DOI - Open Access

Articles:

• Hack A Day : "This is your Solution for Open Source motion tracking"

• Hackster: "Sub-Millimeter 3D Positioning with HiveTracker"

Documentation:

• Introduction

• Development logs

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Firmware / Software

Our repos include several developments and test bricks, from benchmark to web Bluetooth proof of concepts, we try to document each step of our experimentations:

https://github.com/HiveTracker

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Hardware

https://upverter.com/profile/hivetracker

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Contact / News

• Twitter: @hive_tracker

• Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/hivetracker

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Other Ressources

The HiveTracker project was for the LighHouse V1.0 and it's not maintained anymore, but great options appeared since the V2.0:

• Hardware:

  • bitcraze.io/products/lighthouse-positioning-deck
  • tundra-labs.com

• Software:

  • github.com/cntools/libsurvive
  • https://discord.gg/fuJ2XBUrAt

Enjoy!