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> SLAM is likely exactly what they were doing on Mars I think the system on Ingenuity just used feature detection based 2D optical flow rather than a more full
by bri3d 2y ago
> SLAM is likely exactly what they were doing on Mars
I think the system on Ingenuity just used feature detection based 2D optical flow rather than a more full-scale 3D environment-reconstruction type SLAM setup. Which is fine since neither would work in a blank environment like that.
- tonyarkles 2y agoAh yeah that’s true. I’d forgotten about that step in the middle. I suppose too… very valuable lesson learned there for the team: you’ll need to come up with something to augment the optical nav system in that environment!