Has anyone ever heard of using a 3 axis accelerometer onboard the UAV to control the UAV's video camera to "lock on" and follow an object on the ground selected by the UAV pilot? These 3 axis accelerometers are used widely now in autopilots like the FY-26AP and other brands of flight stabilizers. You would think that a pan, tilt, and turn camera platform could be controlled by one of these 3 axis accelerometers to compensate for the UAV's pitch, roll, and yaw and keep the camera on a ground object well enough to keep it always in the field of view?
Anyone heard of anything like this being done?
Regards,
Jim
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yes, there are several folks working on this... there is even arduino code on the Mega code SVN in the works for for camera tracking.
here is some links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GVXqNLLH7Q
http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/Onboard
http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/source/browse/#svn%2FArduPi...