Mocap for the masses....?
category: offtopic [glöplog]
I just saw this on the BBC show Click, thought it might interest some of you...
www.xsens.com
www.xsens.com
For the masses ?
The xsens IMUs are really neat, but really expensive too. I'd say to get them only if you are doing sensitive work requiring lab-calibrated equipment, professional APIs working out-of-the-box, etc.
If you're just hacking around, perfectly good solutions exist such as the Razor IMU, the ArduIMU, and many more. So you'll have to get your hands a bit dirty in code, but there's a variety of drones, quadrotors, and robots in general using these.
The xsens IMUs are really neat, but really expensive too. I'd say to get them only if you are doing sensitive work requiring lab-calibrated equipment, professional APIs working out-of-the-box, etc.
If you're just hacking around, perfectly good solutions exist such as the Razor IMU, the ArduIMU, and many more. So you'll have to get your hands a bit dirty in code, but there's a variety of drones, quadrotors, and robots in general using these.
...or a simple kinect.
http://motion.capture.free.fr/
