Universal indoor base station

So what you want is a common ground station that works with all the vehicles & provides the best possible navigation. There is no practical use for dedicated ground stations based on the raspberry pi for each aircraft. There isn't enough capital to make enough of a dedicated product like that to pay for itself.

The best navigation is from a desktop computer & dual webcams at the highest resolution they can do at 30fps. There's a bag of webcams which max out at 640x480. Higher resolution would be nice. The ground station is ready for a sonar extension, which would support position detection for a 2nd aircraft in a dogfight game.


The monocopters can use 1 webcam. The Blade MCX uses 2 webcams. The problem discovered with the monocopters was how the diameter changed when they got off the ground, skewing the distance measurement. They'll have to use 2 webcams for highest accuracy.


When autonomous, flying, indoor robots become as common as microwaves, they'll use local RF positioning. For now, the camera station is the best.