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The mars helicopter rover has a common mobile CPU, hardened a bit. The fact that aircraft has a lot of common consumer sensors and is still going strong is ama
by olabyne 4y ago
The mars helicopter rover has a common mobile CPU, hardened a bit. The fact that aircraft has a lot of common consumer sensors and is still going strong is amazing (bosch IMU found in smartphone, OV camera, etc ... !)
- orbital-decay 4y agoIt has 7 CPUs, the COTS SoC is just one of them. It's used for the vision tasks - hazard avoidance, odometry etc, and it's optional, as the helicopter is able to be controlled without it. It was specifically a test for the COTS components on Mars, and the vision system actually had multiple issues with frame skipping (I'm not aware of the direct cause though, might have been camera or the software for example).