This is my first post here. I’m a french naturalist with a special interest in marine life (in addition on a special interest of almost every groups of life). I’m a so called “underwater drone” user (a Fifish V6) and I’m about to build my first serious rov, probably starting with a more or less standard BR2.
One important addition to the BR2 for my use is a pan/tilt/zoom camera and I’m looking for ideas to replace the regular low light USB camera.
I had a close look at the Ocean Secrets project but I lack few steps in the process and I don’t fully understand how it works. That said, I may contact Andres for more detals.
Hi again,
Despite the relative success of this topic, I didn’t give up the idea of building a blue rov with a PTZ camera.
Does anyone know if just piloting the three servos of respectively pan, tilt and zoom is easy to do with 3 free channels of the pixhawk if available ?
If the answer is yes, the problem is half solved.
Sorry to see that despite a decent amount of traffic, your original post never got an answer. I’m the new community manager here, and part of my role is making sure that every post gets responded to appropriately. Really happy to see that you’ve stuck around so far
From the control side, all you need to do to achieve this is plug in your three servos and set up the channels and corresponding buttons in QGroundControl, so yes, this is definitely possible with the ArduSub system!
Unfortunately I don’t know much about pan-tilt-zoom cameras because I haven’t used one before, but I’ll ask the Blue Robotics team if they’ve got any recommendations. In the meantime, hopefully someone from the community will have a suggestion or two
It looks like Andres talks more about the camera he used in this post, and Etienne discusses a design for a tilt-zoom camera in this one. Hope that helps!
