I am working on my robot looking into low-cost navigation options and I came across optical flow sensors. Could an optical flow sensor be used on a ground robot to determine path and location? Has anyone tried this?
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Hi @perigalacticon ,
This is the first time I hear about these sensors, so I haven’t used these for sure, but now I am interested what these are 
I did a quick research, and it seems that there are several papers on this topic available (although, you need to pay to read these):
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322581371_Optical_Flow_for_Robot_Navigation
However, there is one project available that can also be interesting for you: Odometry on a Mecanum Robot Using an Optical Flow Sensor