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In practical terms, how close is the accuracy of camera-based visual odometry/SLAM methods to lidar-based methods for autonomous car navigation?
Benedict Evans, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, claims that “almost all autonomy” projects are using lidar for SLAM, and that not all of them use HD maps.
An MIT group is testing self-...
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Robotics RC Car hack help
I need help with a robotisation project, please.
I am new to robotics and have the Maverick RC car pictured below:
My project is to add Arduino and Raspberry Pi boards to control the speed and ...
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Is a small time locally controllable system holonomic?
If you define a wheel that can only rotate and move in the direction it is pointing to but using a combination of motions (arbitrarily short) it can be moved sideways, does the system still remain ...
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DSO_ROS is not giving right coordinates after taking turn (left/right)
Hi all ,
i got stuck in a problem and really need your help.
Goal:
I want to move little Toy vehicle autonomously (localization and mapping) and want to get distance covered by vehicle using DSO in ...
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Which is a good and cheap 3D LIDAR or other options?
Our team is planning to go for European Rover Challenge (ERC) 2018 for which we are designing an Autonomous rover. In order to implement SLAM, we need a way of mapping (with a range of atleast 2-4 ...
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Adding ROS to Raspberry Pi car and teleoperation
I just completed a Raspberry Pi car setup shown in the image below.
With my car now assembled, I can run a simple Python script put the necessary GPIO pins HIGH or LOW and moves the car around ...
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Potential field algorithm in a predefined trajectory
I am currently working on collision avoidance using Potential fields and I have visualized the same in winfom.
Now, I need to test the algorithm in predefined trajectory say a spline(or in a lane).
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Navigation of a ground vehicle towards target without map
I have the following setup:
RC car chassis which can turn, go back and forward; both the turn rate and the acceleration can be controlled smoothly
Raspberry Pi 3
Two cameras so that depth map can be ...
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State prediction of vehicle with Ackermann steering geometry using Kalman-Filter
I am trying to have a Kalman-Filter (or Extended-KF) give me positions for a small remotely controlled vehicle with an Ackermann steering geometry (moving on a plane surface). The control commands I ...
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Reducing noise between 3 ultrasonic sensors and make Autonomous Robot more precise
I made an autonomous robot with 3 ultrasonic sensors. I want to reduce the noise between the 3 sensors and make it gradually slow when it approaches an obstacle. My code is mentioned below. Please ...
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How to build an autonomous navigation system for robots?
I like to know can we make a web site or application(or using something free like google map) to routing a way and our robot can follow the line exactly? For example I like to build a quad-copter and ...
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Is there an open source autonomous vehicle simulator with control over traffic? [closed]
As a part of my research work I'm supposed to build or use an existing autonomous vehicle simulator, in which I can also control the behaviour of the traffic in the system, I was searching on Google ...
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SLAM system for LIDAR and Stereo camera for cone detection for Autonomous driving
The purpose of the SLAM system is very specific, for detecting cones in an image and triangulate their position to create a map.
The data input would be the camera data, odometry and the LIDAR data.
I ...
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Software simulation vs. real world scale model simulation [closed]
There are high quality software robotics simulators like Gazebo available today. What is the difference between a pure software simulation and a real world (say RC) scale model simulation? Is it ...
