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Drone With Camera and Gimbal
Drone With Camera and Gimbal
If you have ever spent time on YouTube looking at drone vids, then you will have seen some of the amazing footage that comes from the use of a camera and gimbal.drone with camera and gimbal In order to achieve that super smooth video and picture quality, there are a lot of complicated pieces of technology that have to work together perfectly. But one piece of equipment is vital and that is the drone gimbal.
The drone gimbal keeps the camera steady as it moves through the air based on a system of calibrated electronic motors and intelligent sensors.drone with camera and gimbal The drone gimbal reduces vibration to allow the camera to be pointed at a specific angle and it does this across all three axes of aerial movement. This is much the same way that a gimbal on a waterborne vessel keeps tools, cameras and drink holders upright regardless of motion around them.
Drones with gimbal cameras are often sold as complete units for people to mount their own camera onto or they are included in the price of some higher-end models of drones.drone with camera and gimbal The large mechanical parts of the gimbal are simple and the drone gimbal is capable of keeping itself stable on all three axes using a system of sensors that detect movement in various ways. It then uses the motors to counteract that movement to keep the camera at a fixed angle.
A more advanced gimbal, such as the Insta360 Flow, can even track and follow a subject in a moving environment. This is accomplished using a special collection of sensors called an inertial measurement unit, or IMU. These sensors are located throughout the gimbal and they can measure the movement of the drone in all directions. The IMU combines the rotational sensor (the gyroscope) with the accelerometer, which measures acceleration in all directions. This allows the drone gimbal to precisely calibrate the movements of the motors so that they are exactly in sync with the movement of the camera.
The drone gimbals you can buy from your favorite online drone retailer are controlled by either knobs on the remote control or by MAVLink messages sent to them from the flight controller. The gimbal in the first link above, for example, is controlled by a stand alone Windows application that indicates the gimbal's attitude and shows a live feed of the camera. It works with Pixhawk4 drones and uses the mAVlink-router running on a Raspberry-pi to route the MAVLink messages to the gimbal. It also supports a wide range of cameras including the Teledyne FLIR Hadron thermal and visible imaging module. This module is ideal for public safety, security and law enforcement applications. The thermal imager has a 1/3" Panasonic CMOS Sensor and the visual camera is a 19mm lens IR thermal sensor with 640x512 resolution. It offers an excellent field of view and 10x optical zoom.
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