This post is a bit of a follow-up to a previous one where I showed Intel’s CEO showcasing a drone with some embedded technology from one company I co-founded.
Here you will see the same drone system in a much more challenging outdoor environment: a forest. Our piece of technology, mounted on the bottom, is used as a precision, very fast altimeter.
Our distance sensors are based on the time-of-flight principle, using infrared light. In layman's terms, this means that by measuring the time it takes for light to hit a reflecting surface and come back to the sensor, we obtain a distance measure.
In the forest environment, the technological challenge for our sensor is to get precise distance data in changing environmental light conditions, while flying over different materials with variable reflecting properties…
The drone maker was acquired by Intel in early 2016.
Enjoy the video!
