Davide Scaramuzza and pals in the Robotics and Perception Group at University of Zurich have devised a new method called Semi-Direct Monocular Visual Odometry for autonomous gps denied micro areal vehicle navigation. Using only a single…
Boeing sponsored research at MIT where Agha-mohammadi and pals have developed a new algorithm based on Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDP) that allows self monitoring of the vehicles health status in real time…
Censi and Davide Scaramuzza of the University of Zurich present the first state-estimation algorithm.robotic In a previous experiment Kumar gauged the robots’ location using a battery of external cameras that captured 1,000 exposures a second.see…
Thanks to Alexandre Karpenko and pals at Stanford University , they have published open source software under GNU General Public License that stabilizes video image and eliminates shutter roll (jello) . In their example they are using the iphones…
Saw this fantastic story on BBC the other day.Easyjet is developing drones to inspect its fleet of Airbus aircraft, and may introduce the flying maintenance robots as early as next year.The drones will be used to scan and assess Easyjet planes and…