Starling 2 VIO - how many cameras used?
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Hello,
I'm new! I have a starling 2 drone with 3 tracking cameras. Position mode flight is working fine - most of the time anyway. When viewing QVIO overlay on the web portal, or when viewing voxl-inspect-qvio --feature depth, I only see 1 camera (front facing) listed/shown with tracking points. Is the system only using 1 tracking camera for VIO? I expected it would use 3 since it has 3 tracking cameras.
Can anyone shine some light on this topic for me? I would like to use more of the cameras for tracking in case 1 camera is pointing at a blank wall for example, then the other cameras could continue to locate the drone. Please link me to resources that could help me understand the system, and options/alternatives/adjustments I can make.
Cheers!
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@star123 Yes it is only using one tracking camera by default. Our next SDK release will switch VIO from QVIO to VINS which will use multi-cam input by default.
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@tom thank you for your response! Is there a planned date for the next SDK release? Is it possible to test a pre-release / dev version?
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@star123 Probably a couple weeks out.
We have nightly SDK's built with the latest off of the
devbranch of each repo, here is last night's: https://storage.googleapis.com/platform-nightlies/voxl2/voxl2_SDK_nightly_20241118.tar.gzYou can find a new one published each day via date.
These are completely untested so can't guarantee any functionality but this will represent the tip of our development.
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@tom As we start our testing cycle and get close to release we will also start releasing "beta" SDKs which can be downloaded from the "platform-releases" bucket
