Roboat robotic boats and their use of RealSense

MartyG — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 14:48:05 GMT

Hi everyone,

In the news today was a technology called 'roboat', self-driving boats that can autonomously navigate and assemble themselves into different structures such as stages or bridges.

https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/05/autonomous-roboats-can-assemble-into-floating-stages/

Though their primary means of perception and localization is time-of-flight lidar cameras on top of the boat, a technical paper about the boats adds that "the robotic boats integrate a skirt of Intel RealSense cameras to detect tags in the docks and on other roboats for position estimation and identification".

http://senseable.mit.edu/papers/pdf/20190525_Mateos_Latching_ICRA.pdf

Lidar and RealSense depth sensing have also been combined in the past in a retail robot called Tally that could navigate store aisles whilst scanning the stock on the shelves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NN8kXh-Tpk

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