http://ausrobotics.disqus.com/enSat, 01 Sep 2007 19:44:53 -0000http://ausrobotics.com/2007/08/talking_robots_podcast_jean_christophe_zufferey/#comment-3661393<p><br>Hehe yeah it is amazing for the size of the thing :)<br></p><p><br></p><p><br>Some time ago I stumbled across a project that used hacked optical mouse chips as a flight control systems for a micro-flyer.<br></p><p><br></p><p><br>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. <br></p><p><br></p><p><br>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.<br></p>ashSat, 01 Sep 2007 19:44:53 -0000http://ausrobotics.com/2007/08/talking_robots_podcast_jean_christophe_zufferey/#comment-3661392<p>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...</p><p>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. :)</p><p>Roland</p>AnonymousSat, 01 Sep 2007 13:50:11 -0000