Optical Flow Kit PX4FLOW

PX4FLOW Optical Flow Kit is an optical flow smart camera. This camera provides the image for setup purposes, but is not designed to capture images as a webcam.

It has a specialized high resolution downward pointing camera module and a 3-axis gyro that uses the ground texture and visible features to determine aircraft ground velocity.

PX4FLOW Optical Flow Kit has a native resolution of 752×480 pixels and calculates optical flow on a 4x binned and cropped area at 400 Hz, giving it a very high light sensitivity.

Unlike many mouse sensors, PX4FLOW also works indoors and in low outdoor light conditions without the need for an illumination LED. It can be freely reprogrammed to do any other basic, efficient low-level computer vision task.

Features

MT9V034 machine vision

CMOS sensor with global shutter

Optical flow processing at 4×4 binned image at 400 Hz

Superior light sensitivity with 24×24 μm super-pixels

Onboard 16bit gyroscope up to 2000°/s and 780 Hz update rate, default high precision-mode at 500°/s

Without Sonar

USB bootloader

USB serial up to 921600 baud (including live camera view with QGroundControl)

USB power option