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Actually, there is commercially available optical flow sensors available today.
by IheartApplesDix 14y ago
Actually, there is commercially available optical flow sensors available today.
- scoot 14y agoI laughed when I heard the reference to optical flow sensors, like somehow strapping an optical mouse sensor (albeit with appropriate lens technology) to the bottom of a drone somehow solves all the sensing and control problemthin loved in bringing this technology to the mainstream. An optical flow sensor has very limited utility; it's possibly the least useful of all the sensors you could add to a UAV. It's inclusion in this video was purely marketing fluff for the technically illiterate, thanks to its fancier-than-it-actually-is sounding nomenclature.
- IheartApplesDix 14y agoObviously, Optical flow sensors are a bit more complicated than mouse sensors, (although similar). Optical flow is very similar to how insects judge their relative location, and it's a critical component in existing advanced drone technology, early in application, but almost a decade old in theory.