Topics created by Myles Levine

@Myles-Levine , the VOXL2 SoC is not designed to run at full power for a long time without cooling.

The maximum operating temperature is around 95 deg C, at which point, the CPU will being automatically throttling (reducing) operating frequency.

It is common to rely on air flow from propellers when the drone is flying, however some implementations may have a small fan as well.

Since you mentioned bench testing, installing a small fan next to VOXL2 to get airflow over the board should help. No specific recommendations, you can start with a standard 12V fan used in PC power supplies.

It can be relatively easy to overheat VOXL2 without cooling, because it has quite a powerful processor and the heat is concentrated in such a small package. You can spend more time optimizing the code (if possible) or add passive and / or active cooling.

Alex

@Myles-Levine , if you are masking out 90% of down-facing camera, then it is probably useless any movement of the features will get it out of the unmasked region very easily and feature will be dropped.. It may hurt VIO as there may be features going in and out, only trackable for a few frames (just adds to the complexity).

You should try to move the down-facing camera to free up it's FOV or even have it facing slightly angled to the back of the drone..

Alex

@Myles-Levine Nevermind, I got it working through the voxl interface instead of Qgroundcontrol. Thank you.

Hello @Myles-Levine and All,

You have been very patient.. Sorry for the delay.

The Step file for the exact configuration you requested has been uploaded to our Assets page:

https://developer.modalai.com/asset/6
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It should look something like (well, exactly like 🙂 ) the rendering below. Please let me know if you have any issues with the model. It may take a few minutes to load..

Alex

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