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richnormand wrote ...
Thanks for posting, keep them coming. Can’t wait for the video!
Ill be posting more tonight and tomarrow.
richnormand wrote ...
LIDAR and laser painting is OK but to keep weight down has anyone tried to use ambient light (or a simple LED IR source)and synthesize a three line scanner out of a custom reading or video processing of a CCD output (ie: like to old EG&G Reticon line scans but with a single CCD for all three vectors). With a suitable beam splitter lens and custom ASIC in a small package.
Yes, the Pima Community College was the only team that used the system you describe, one of there own design. All other teams used lidar, and one used the Kinect.
richnormand wrote ...
If not, although autonomous, are you allowed data transmissions back and forth? This could allow heavy duty processing off-board if needed.
Yes, off board processing and two-way communication is allowed, so long as the whole system is atonomous once started.
richnormand wrote ...
Nice stuff. Is DARPA a sponsor?
It apears not to be a sponsor as seen in the pic below.
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"Yes, off board processing and two-way communication is allowed, so long as the whole system is atonomous once started. "
That opens a lot of possibility. A one or two cm^3 beamsplitter/CCD package with remote line vector processing could be very powerful for navigation, ranging and recognition....
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richnormand wrote ...
That opens a lot of possibility. A one or two cm^3 beamsplitter/CCD package with remote line vector processing could be very powerful for navigation, ranging and recognition....
that is what one of the teams is doing, the others are using "optical-flow" analysis.
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International Aerial Robotics Competition, Mission 6, 2011.
