How much can cameras be obscured?
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Hello,
I am trying to attach a payload to a Starling 2 Max. I started having flight control issues (specifically the drone shooting higher than its designated hovering height, and going in random directions instead of down for landing), and tracked it back to VIO and obscuring some of the forward cameras' downward view. Which view is critical for flight stability, the tracking camera or the other camera? Approximately how much of the view of the relevant camera can be obscured before it impacts flight stability?
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You should not have any unmasked static objects appear in the camera view because they may have features that will be tracked and will confuse the algorithm because these features will be stationary with respect to the drone even if the drone is moving.
open vins should support masking parts of the camera(s) to ignore any features in this region. I am not sure how to enable the mask, will double check with colleagues (you could also do a search..).
worst care scenario, the part of the image to be ignored should be blacked out before feeding into open vins - that would be the solution if the mask is not supported. Hopefully that is not needed and mask can be used.
Alex
