Odometry for ground moving agents by optic flow recorded with optical mouse chips

Sensors (Basel). 2014 Nov 6;14(11):21045-64. doi: 10.3390/s141121045.

Abstract

Optical mouse chips-equipped with adequate lenses-can serve as small, light, precise, fast, and cheap motion sensors monitoring optic flow induced by self motion of an agent in a contrasted environment. We present a device that extracts self motion parameters exclusively from flow in eight mouse sensors. Four pairs of sensors with opposite azimuth are mounted on a sensor head, each individual sensor looking down with -45° elevation. The head is mounted on a carriage and is moved at constant height above a textured planar ground. The calibration procedure and tests on the precision of self motion estimates are reported.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Actigraphy / instrumentation*
  • Animals
  • Computer Peripherals*
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Flight, Animal / physiology*
  • Hemiptera / anatomy & histology
  • Hemiptera / physiology*
  • Motion
  • Motor Activity / physiology*
  • Optic Flow*
  • Photography / instrumentation*
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation
  • Video Recording / instrumentation