What a Save! Optical Flow Flights Gone Wild | Don’t Know What You Got 'Til Its Gone & Just Words

Описание: iVue Robotics Founder, Jacob Andrews, and lead Electrical Engineer, Gerardo Salinas, are back at the park for testing. Today, they are pushing the limits of the Develop Air mini by testing its non GPS capabilities, using a HereFlow optical flow sensor and a TeraRanger to test its ability to hold position using only visual sensors and rangefinding.

It was anything but smooth sailing. They ran into a conflict where the flight mode switch was accidentally triggering an auto-landing sequence. After sorting out the channel mapping and performing the "calibration dance," they tested optical flow positioning only to face a sudden altitude spike that required some pro-piloting reflexes to save the drone from a flyaway.

Join us for the troubleshooting, the software wars, and the flight tests!

00:00 - Intro: The Boys are Back at Fowler Park
01:30 - First Flight: GPS Loiter Check
02:11 - The Calibration Dance (Wobble Baby)
03:00 - The Glitch: Why is it Auto-Landing?
03:50 - Software Wars: iVue RC vs. Mission Planner
05:00 - Bluetooth Connection Struggles
08:30 - Parameter Hunting: Finding the Switch Error
10:00 - Mission Planner Crashes on Windows
11:20 - Fixing RC5 Mapping in QGroundControl
14:00 - Second Flight: Aggressive Calibration
16:15 - Success! Switching to FlowHold Mode
17:50 - WHAT A SAVE: Drone Spikes in Altitude
18:25 - Post-Flight Analysis: Sensor Smudge or EKF Variance?
22:30 - Sticks, Stones, and Error Logs
24:50 - Conclusion & Next Steps

iVue RoboControl (iVue RC) is available at worldsivue.com.

Develop Air is available to buy or build DIY at ivuerobotics.com.

Recorded on 2/17/26.