Method and system for wireless transmission of quaternions

摘要

A method and system for low latency, low power, high fidelity wireless transmission of quaternions provides superior performance of real-time applications that transmit and consume quaternions. The method and system provide a quaternion transmission protocol wherein quaternion sources, such as sensor units, construct quaternion update packets containing quaternions encoded in a notation that both conserves bandwidth and preserves angular resolution provided by quaternions. The update packets are transmitted on a wireless communication link to a quaternion destination, such as a data hub, which deconstructs and interprets the update packets.

主权项

1. A system for wireless transmission of quaternions, comprising:
a quaternion source configured to construct a quaternion update packet containing a quaternion at predefined bit positions and in a predefined fixed bit length format specified by a quaternion transmission protocol and transmit the update packet on a wireless communication link; and a quaternion destination configured to receive the update packet off the wireless link and interpret the update packet, wherein the quaternion is expressed in the update packet in a compressed form.