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They'd be starting from scratch, so it would be way too large an undertaking. Automatic tracking of any kind in drones is still not a commodity; most DIY FPV d
by bri3d 3y ago
They'd be starting from scratch, so it would be way too large an undertaking.
Automatic tracking of any kind in drones is still not a commodity; most DIY FPV drones like these use flight control software which is ridiculously primitive by control systems standards, just PID rate control with some aggressive gyro filtering (PT1/2/3 and dynamic notch following motor RPM).
There's a lot of academic research in this space - GitHub is littered with thesis projects about drone autonomy of all sorts (inside-out, outside-in, inertial based, visual based, basically anything you can imagine), and there's a lot of commercial success (DJI, Skydio, Autel, and Parrot all have decent inside-out visual odometry and follow-me capabilities), but no project has yet emerged that bridges the gap from research one-off to commodity download for custom purposes.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>and there's a lot of commercial success Yeah and even there, those commercial automatic tracking systems are only meant to follow you mountain biking at 30 kmph, not driving at 10x that speed in your F1 car. F1 themselves use cameras mounted on cables above the track traveling at high speeds for tracking shots. Having drones fly at that speed and accuracy would be a monumental challenge, not to mention super dangerous and expensive if one were to fall down at that speed and hit a car/viewer. It could probably kill someone easily. Hence my point of these having military applications.