Best Board-Camera(s) to use with Arducopter

Posted by Chase Hall on May 9, 2012 at 11:23am

Hello All,

I am wanting to mount a board-camera to the bottom of my Quad-Copter to use for a look-down auto-pilot algorithm I am writing. Basically, I want to have the camera running into a Pro-Mini (which contains the algorithm) and then have the Pro-Mini run to the APM board. 

I am wondering what cameras will work best (i.e. easiest to connect and get data flowing) with the APM or the Pro-Mini? Also, where can I find a list of possible cameras?

Thanks, and let me know if you have any questions; I know my project sounds kinda weird.

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    Randy May 10, 2012 at 6:42am

    Chase,

         Attaching a camera to a quad isn't too crazy I think.  A lot of people do aerial photography and that sort of thing.

         ..but sounds like you want to use the camera for navigation?  I.e. you look at the ground and observe the movement and calculate a position from that?   The closest we have is an optical flow sensor.  This is not really a camera though..it's a mouse sensor so it's much lower resolution.

         In general, if you're trying to do image processing using the APM cpu you'll be disappointed.  It's just not fast enough to do that sort of thing.  Once Arduino supports ARM (which isn't so far away) and 3dr makes an ARM version of the APM you'd be a step closer.

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