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    Hey,

    together with my team, I am currently working on a student project in cooperation with a local company called Witron.

    The goal of the project is to develop a maintenance drone for a high-bay warehouse in in-house logistics. In the event of a fault, the drone should autonomously fly to the affected storage location, record video footage of the situation, and support maintenance personnel in identifying the cause of the problem more quickly.

    We are currently evaluating suitable drone platforms for this application. Our main requirements are autonomous indoor flight, reliable navigation in narrow warehouse aisles, obstacle avoidance, and camera-based inspection.

    One of the most important points for us is programmability. We would like to know whether it is possible to access and control your drone via Python or a comparable programming language, so that we can further develop and integrate it into our project setup.

    Could you please answer us the following questions:

    Is the drone suitable for such an application, or is there a drone better suited for this kind of application? Is such indoor autonomous operation is feasible with the Starling 2 Max? To what extent can this drone be programmed and extended for research or development purposes? Is the drone programmable with Python or a similar programming language? What charge time can be expected? Is a docking station/ induction charging retrofit possible? Is the drone capable of navigating in subpar lighting conditions? What is the expected maximum flight time at maximum takeoff weight? What are the operational temperature limits of the drone? Does visual obstacle avoidance also work during remote controlled manual flight? What is the expected delivery time for the system to Germany?

    Thanks in advance
    Kind Regards
    Michael

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    施文正施

    Hi Sir,

    How can I get the "Image Sensor Hardware Design and Integration Guide" documents.

    Thanks!

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    Alex KushleyevA

    @yaoyuh, sorry for the delay. It looks like we have the lenses in stock, so you could fill out the contract form for a custom order and mention part number "M10000513 - Lens for M0161 Camera without IR filter".

    https://www.modalai.com/pages/contact-us

    Also, you can remove the IR filter from your current lenses. You have to be a bit careful so that the pieces of filter are not spread in your work space. My suggestion would be to first place a small piece of tape on top of the filter which will keep all the pieces together if the filter breaks during removal. The filter has a rectangular shape and is attached to the back side of the lens with an adhesive in 4 corners. It should be possible to just pry it off from the back of the lens (after completely removing the lens from the camera module). When you remove the lens from the camera module, you should cover it up so that dust does not get inside and on the sensor itself.

    Please note that removing the filter from the lens is not an official guideline, but you could do it at your own risk.

    Please see the following post where we also discussed removing the IR filter from AR0144 (which was actually more difficult because the filter there has a round shape) : https://forum.modalai.com/topic/4826/msu-m0149-1-ir-filter

    Alex

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    IgorI

    Hi everyone,

    I am following the VOXL Emulator documentation to set up my development environment for VOXL 2. However, I am unable to find the specific docker image file qrb5165-emulator_V1.5.tgz mentioned in the guide.

    If the documentation is outdated, could someone provide the direct link or the current naming convention for the QRB5165 emulator image?

    Thanks!

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    VinnyV

    @Pelle-Bredegg-Hermansen
    Hi Pelle,
    I emailed you the schematic review report for your considerations, just wanted to post here this task is completed.

    Keep us posted!
    Thanks!