As part of Centeye’s participation in the NSF-funded Harvard University Robobee project, we are trying to see just how small we can make a vision system that can control a small flying vehicle. For the Robobee project our weight budget will be on the order of 25 milligrams. The vision system for our previous helicopter [...]

In an earlier post, I shared plans for a CYE32 vision sensor based around the AT32UC3B1256 microcontroller.  After working with this vision sensor for a couple months, it has become a useful platform for trying out new vision chips and new image processing algorithms.   I put together a short video that shows off some [...]

I just got back some new silicon! These are the latest image sensor chips I designed specifically for robotics and embedded vision applications. The pictures above show a full wafer followed by a close-up of the wafer from an angle. There are four chips in each reticle- if you look closely you can see them [...]