In this paper we describe the Open Vision Computer (OVC) which was designed to support high speed, vision guided autonomous drone flight. In particular our aim was to develop a system that would be suitable for relatively small-scale flying platforms where size, weight, power consumption and computational performance were all important considerations. This manuscript describes the primary features of our OVC system and explains how they are used to support fully autonomous indoor and outdoor exploration and navigation operations on our Falcon 250 quadrotor platform.
@article{arxiv.1809.07674,
title = {The Open Vision Computer: An Integrated Sensing and Compute System for Mobile Robots},
author = {Morgan Quigley and Kartik Mohta and Shreyas S. Shivakumar and Michael Watterson and Yash Mulgaonkar and Mikael Arguedas and Ke Sun and Sikang Liu and Bernd Pfrommer and Vijay Kumar and Camillo J. Taylor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.07674},
year = {2018}
}