As Virtana continues our development towards achieving autonomous flight with a nano-drone, we needed to integrate a camera for use with a visual inertial odometry (VIO) system. We describe our process for choosing the OV9281 camera and the process for getting it successfully integrated it with our processor.

Virtana is currently working on developing an autonomous nano-drone using the CrazyFlie 2.1. and UCM-i.MX93 System-on-Module. So far, we’ve been able to validate that it is possible to run a VIO system on our lightweight processor, which is the first step to building out this system!

A high-level description of LiDAR as a technology including a breakdown of 1D, 2D and 3D sensors, scanning methods, ToF and FMCW.