VOXL2 Downward pointing camera
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Hi!
Is there a way to connect a camera pointing straight down from the Sentinel? This is not an optical flow sensor, but a standard camera sensor that sends picture of the ground to the user.
Let me know if this setup is possible.
Thanks!
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Would love an update on this!
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VOXL2 supports many camera configurations including front and rear stereo, a hires camera, and a tracking camera.
The drone development kits for VOXL2 such as the Sentinel (https://www.modalai.com/products/sentinel-development-drone?variant=40446488805427) and VOXL2 Flight Deck include the tracking camera at 45 degrees. You could adapt this to point straight down.
You could also put any camera on a gimbal or statically using the MIPI connectors for these "standard" cameras ModalAI provides (https://docs.modalai.com/voxl2-camera-configs/) or even interface over USB. https://www.modalai.com/pages/voxl-cameras
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Thank you for your response!
@Steve-Turner
This is just for curiosity purposes. If I do place the tracking camera to be facing directly downwards. Can it be used for VIO flight outdoors?Thanks!
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Yes it should work -- I haven't explicitly tried pointing directly downwards myself. https://docs.modalai.com/flying-without-gps/ has some insight and a nice video about the subject of using VIO outdoors.
It does work at 45* reasonably well especially with enough altitude to pick out features.
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