Aggressive Flight Using Laser Scanner, IMU, & 3D Map
Updated: 2012-05-30 17:13:36
, , All the news that's fit to assimilate Home Blogs Events Robots Humans Projects Podcasts About Account Aggressive Flight Using Laser Scanner , IMU , 3D Map Posted 30 May 2012 at 16:13 UTC by John_RobotsPodcast Evan Ackerman , writing for IEEE Spectrum's Automaton blog says Researchers at MIT CSAIL have decided that slow and obstacle-free flight is boring , so theyâ ve come up with a way to get MAVs navigating at high speed , indoors , around obstacles , without needing motion tracking or GPS or beacons or any of that nonsense . All they need is a little aircraft that can carry a planar laser rangefinder , an IMU , and a pre-existing 3D occupancy map that the MAV can localize itself . in This research has been conducted by the Robust Robotics Group RRG led by Nicholas Roy A paper
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All the news that's fit to assimilate Home Blogs Events Robots Humans Projects Podcasts About Account Open Source Robotics Foundation Announced Posted 17 May 2012 at 18:18 UTC by John_RobotsPodcast Announced via the Willow Garage website , the Open Source Robotics Foundation , Inc . OSRF is nindependent non-profit organization founded by members of the global robotics . community Its mission is to support the development , distribution , and adoption of open source software for use in robotics research , education , and product . development OSRF's board of directors includes Professor Wolfram Burgard of the University of Freiburg , Ryan Gariepy , CTO of Clearpath Robotics Brian Gerkey , Director of Open Source Development at Willow Garage Helen Greiner a co-founder of iRobot and currently
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