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fly_tau_from_expansion — FLYVISION looming op

使い方

Time-to-contact from optical expansion — the tau margin.

From the subtended angle and its rate::

shape="disk":   tau = sin(theta) / theta'
shape="sphere": tau = 2*tan(theta/2) / theta'

theta_signal is the full subtended angle over time, radians.

★ The two object models differ by 33% at a 60-degree subtense (sin 60 = 0.866 vs 2 tan 30 = 1.155); using the wrong one silently mis-times a landing, so the model is a required, named choice rather than a default guess.

theta_signal: the full subtended angle per sample, radians. dt_s: the sample interval, seconds. shape: "disk" (a frontal circular disk) or "sphere".

Returns a 1-D float64 array of the time-to-contact per sample, seconds. Non-expanding samples (theta' <= 0) return NaN — a documented non-finite, because a contracting or static angle has no time-to-contact and inventing one would be a plausible-wrong number.

Ground truth: for the model’s own object geometry (theta = 2 asin(l/d) for a sphere, theta = 2 atan(l/d) for a disk) approaching at speed |v|, the returned tau equals the true distance-over-speed d/|v| (pinned in the tests).

Raises ValueError: a non-1-D / empty / too-short (< 3) / non-finite theta_signal, a signal over :data:MAX_SIGNAL_POINTS, a non-positive dt_s, and an unknown shape. A non-expanding angle is not an error — it is the documented NaN return above.

参考(サンプルデータ・文献)

実行できる例(この op を実際に呼ぶ検証済みサンプル)

型が繋がる次の op(signal を入力に取れる)

fly_emd_response · fly_lgmd_eta · fly_dsi

同カテゴリ(looming)

fly_lgmd_eta


Provenance: flyvision.py — FLYVISION operator registry. この per-op ノートは tools/opdocs.py md が自動生成(手編集しない)。

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