Category: Bio-Inspired Robotics

How to update the activity of pose cells in RatSLAM?

The excerpt note is from Michael et al., 2008, which explains the detail process to update the activity of pose cells in RatSLAM.

Milford, Michael J., and Gordon F. Wyeth. “Mapping a suburb with a single camera using a

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How to build robust, visual-inertial state estimation for autonomous navigation?

Robust, Visual-Inertial State Estimation: from Frame-based to Event-based Cameras

This lecture was presented by Professor Davide Scaramuzza at Affiliation University of Zurich, ETH Zurich in September 25, 2017 on Series Microsoft Research Talks.

Professor Davide Scaramuzza presented main algorithms to …

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Why drones can learn to navigate autonomously by imitating cars and bicycles?

Drones learn to navigate autonomously by imitating cars and bicycles powered by AI

January 23, 2018, by University of Zurich

Developed by UZH researchers, the algorithm DroNet allows drones to fly completely by themselves through the streets of a city

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Camera Calibration Toolbox for Matlab

Camera Calibration Toolbox for Matlab @ Dr. Jean-Yves Bouguet

This is a release of a Camera Calibration Toolbox for Matlab® with a complete documentation. This document may also be used as a tutorial on camera calibration since it includes …

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Robotics Roadmap in the US and Europe

The US last year published its third Roadmap for US Robotics, covering the societal opportunities and challenges presented by the technology, and what needed to be done to continue innovation and adoption. Read more "A Roadmap for US Robotics

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Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS)

From inilabs.com

DVS Overview

Dvs128AndEdvsWithCreditCardConventional vision sensors see the world as a series of frames. Successive frames contain enormous amounts of redundant information, wasting memory access, RAM, disk space, energy, computational power and time. In addition, each frame imposes the …

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ETH ANYmal: a quadrupedal robot designed for autonomous operation in challenging environments

ANYmal is a quadrupedal robot designed for autonomous operation in challenging environments. Driven by special compliant and precisely torque controllable actuators, the system is capable of dynamic running and high-mobile climbing. Thanks to incorporated laser sensors and cameras, the robot …

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