Optical Flow, Flying Insects and Drones #drone #droneday

From MAVLab TU Delft on YouTube via DroneDJ:

Flying insects heavily rely on optical flow for visual navigation and flight control. Roboticists have endowed small flying robots with optical flow control as well, since it requires just a tiny vision sensor.

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