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Washington, DC
About Me:
Founder of Centeye, Inc. www.centeye.com www.embeddedeye.com
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Visual navigation for MAVs, embedded vision, bio-inspired signal processing
Hometown:
Washington, DC
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It has been awhile since I’ve posted anything about recent Centeye hardware. Some of you may remember my past work implementing light weight integrated vision sensors (both stereo and monocular) for “micro” and “nano” drones. These incorporated…
"@Andreas, I agree, and we are on the same page. An issue that can be faced is that some see the off-board mode as undesirable. Apparently the off-board mode bypasses all sorts of safeguards that some understandably want to keep. Therefore any…"
"@Mateusz- Thank You for sharing it! I will check it out there..."
"@Andreas- You bring up some good points. I think that higher "D" avoidance systems are on the horizon, at least for larger drones, but once they are developed it will be quite awhile before they are plug and play. One of the points of my D/R…"
Figure 1: (left) Foam drone with optical flow sensor mounted under a wing, Summer 2001. (right) Foam drone with optical flow sensors for attempted obstacle avoidance, Summer 2002.Today it is universally acknowledged that drones operating close to…
"Greg- Thank You. Yes, FPGAs can clearly have a place in such a system, as could highly parallel processing architectures, if done right. Things to keep in mind, though (and these are my opinions): 1) We have to remember that the mass of a processor…"
"Thank You Chris, both for the comment and the suggestions. I have not looked at OpenCV for a long time, and have not looked at TensorFlow Lite. I was not aware of the OpenMV board- this is pretty cool! I was actually moving somewhat in that…"
(Photo by Dustin Iskandar, CC BY 2.0)My long-time interest has been in developing insect-type vision for small drones. Properly implemented, I believe that such vision hardware and algorithms will allow small drones to fly safely amidst clutter and…
"Very cool! I wonder if this area would benefit from yet smaller drones that can fly way up into the branches and see the structures from the inside."
"Chris, Everyone- Thank You for posting this. We are deliberately developing this technology for both civil and military use, and so I do envision this hardware finding it's way into, at least, commercial nano drones. The hardware can be made…"
"An inevitable implication of Zipf's Law is that if there is a market for a $100 version of a product, and a market for a $10000 version of a product, then there is certainly a market for a $1000 version as well. Also, if the market size (in units…"
"@Patrick: Good question. We plan to reboot ArduEye sometime "soon". It was a mistake to stop it. As for the higher performance sensors for nano drones, we have a design that works great for internal development purposes.…"
"Nice work Simon! I can appreciate your desire to have more control over the controller itself. We are happy with the Crazyflie, but that required us to build a separate controller board that generates all the high level control information.…"
"Nice article! I pretty much agree with all of them, but some will occur sooner than others. I would like to add a few more predictions, based on observing the "micro" UAV industry since I first got involved in 1996:
11) Drones will fly close to the…"
11) Drones will fly close to the…"
"I'm sure the folks at BitCraze are happy. :)"
"@Hugues- Thank You, and you do bring up a good question. The prototype shown wasn't intended for commercialization, but more to see how far we can push vision at this scale. And that is only after a few months of tweaking that version so there is a…"
