Comments on: Talking Robots Podcast: Jean-Christophe Zufferey http://ausrobotics.com/2007/08/talking_robots_podcast_jean_christophe_zufferey/ Because someone has to build our future robot overlords! Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:24:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://ausrobotics.com/2007/08/talking_robots_podcast_jean_christophe_zufferey/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-62 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... 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. :) Roland 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…

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. :)

Roland

]]> By: ash http://ausrobotics.com/2007/08/talking_robots_podcast_jean_christophe_zufferey/comment-page-1/#comment-65 ash Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-65 <p> Hehe yeah it is amazing for the size of the thing :) </p> <p> Some time ago I stumbled across a project that used hacked optical mouse chips as a flight control systems for a micro-flyer. </p> <p> 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. </p> <p> 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. </p> Hehe yeah it is amazing for the size of the thing :)

Some time ago I stumbled across a project that used hacked optical mouse chips as a flight control systems for a micro-flyer.

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.

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.

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