Very cool. It is interesting how they have split the vision into two line sensors to assist in controlling the flight. When they said "textured enviroment" I did not exactly expect the highly artificial setup that they showed. Amazing work for only 10g. I guess that fully autonomous is good in case of a comms breakdown, but for surveilance apps they would need to stream the video data back to a base unit anyway and allow some sort of remote instruction...
It's a bit like those toys on the string that fly around and around... Only there's no string and it goes up and down. All by itself. :)
Roland
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· 2 years ago
Hehe yeah it is amazing for the size of the thing :)
Some time ago I stumbled across a project that used hacked optical mouse chips as a flight control systems for a micro-flyer.
The chips have all of the optical flow logic built in and (at least the ones I have seen) return delta x/y values as the mouse moves. By taking off the standard all-in-one lens and adding a different the chip they can be used to calculate speed etc as the flyer moves.
I find the link again unfortunatel but i'll add it to the knowledgebase if I do. If you do google 'optical mouse robot' then you at least get a lot of related stuff.
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It's a bit like those toys on the string that fly around and around... Only there's no string and it goes up and down. All by itself. :)
Roland
Hehe yeah it is amazing for the size of the thing :)
Some time ago I stumbled across a project that used hacked optical mouse chips as a flight control systems for a micro-flyer.
The chips have all of the optical flow logic built in and (at least the ones I have seen) return delta x/y values as the mouse moves. By taking off the standard all-in-one lens and adding a different the chip they can be used to calculate speed etc as the flyer moves.
I find the link again unfortunatel but i'll add it to the knowledgebase if I do. If you do google 'optical mouse robot' then you at least get a lot of related stuff.