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Re: The Perfect swerve

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Originally Posted by s_forbes View Post
As an alternative method: what's the average height of a ceiling at a typical venue? The truss structures I've seen in most gymnasiums might impact an optical flow approach, but it may work better than the carpet.
Astral navigation :D I really wanted to use this approach to verify the gyro readings when in view of landmarks on the ceiling, and use the gyro for orientation when the landmarks are obscured (by the truss / balls flying overhead), but we never got around to getting a camera for it (not even a stereo camera - just an Axis). If anyone ever makes any progress on this, I would love to know about it. I've only ever seen one real-world thing that boasts their use of it, and those are StarGazer localization cameras, which need specific landmarks (so this particular method of astral navigation isn't suited to be used on the playing field)

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