Curious if you any of you guys use FPV on your bot and share your experience. Perhaps link to the video? This is illegal for competition, but it would be fun to play with.
Thanks
I know some teams have go-pros on their bots, I would not see how an fpv cam might be any different unless there are rules about covering your eyes.
Not trying to be an ahole, but its DJI.
I haven’t seen anyone trying to drive the robot with a 3rd person fpv drone. But I have seen robot reveals using fpv drone footage, which is kinda cool ngl.
E101 forbids things covering eyes.
Technically, there were lots of teams that drove their robots as FPV back in 2019…
The way a GoPro is different is the footage is getting saved locally to a memory card, there’s no transmission of data. Without doing crazy modification to send the video feed through FMS, a typical FPV setup would just broadcast directly from the camera to the headset, disallowed by R702
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Well…
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His eyes are clearly visible to others.
We tried having our drivers use a VuFine a few years back, but while legal, having to leave it connected (via wire) to the DS and put it on after Auto presented a number of logistical issues.
Ok well that isn’t traditional fpv headwear. I don’t know if that breaks any other rules with wireless devices, communications, etc.
I stand corrected on the 2nd half of my message.
I have a DJI Digital Fpv camera transmitter but never got around to adding it to the robot. At the time I was thinking cooling was as issue because the transmission unit gets absurdly hot when it’s not in flight.
I was also thinking it would work better on a robot if it had a gimble allowing you to do head tracking. I’ve got a rig designed for fixed wing aircraft…but again it’s just never made it off the back log.
Because of the wireless protocols it wouldn’t be competition legal, but it would certainly be fun!
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