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Optical Flow

Posted by Rick Eis on May 30, 2012 at 9:22am

I just did the micro solder job installing the optical flow sensor :)

And now I am looking for the latest and best instructions on testing and checking things out.  

Does anyone have a success story to share? :)

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  • VENKAT RAVI KISHORE February 12, 2014 at 1:02am
    Hi Guys,

    I have given the connections given in the WIKI page and now my optical flow sensor is working well. Even I'm able to grab the images and motion values using python test program.

    Thanks
  • Preston December 23, 2012 at 8:31am

    I just finished wiring one up on my APM2.5.  I have gone through the testing and it seems to be working.  I am about to post a couple of questions regarding 'focus' of the sensor and the python script dying.

    I made a couple of suggestions at the bottom of the document comments regarding waiting for the board to reply with a menu before you ask it for images.  Seems obvious in retrospect, but it wasn't at the time.

    So for 'Load the AP_Opti...." instruction was missing something key.  This is an Arduino sketch you load onto your APM.  It is included with the APM code you can download.  You have to have the Arduino IDE installed and running.

    One more thing....make sure you take the lens cap off. ;)

  • Luis Clement December 8, 2012 at 11:44am

    Did you ever get it to work? I installed as well and did not see anything happen...

  • Rick Eis June 1, 2012 at 5:51am

    In trying to follow the instructions on http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_OptFlow

    I'm not sure how to do this....

    "Load the AP_OpticalFlow_test.pde sketch to your APM"

     

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