How to build a ...
sand-drawing robot
Wolf Vollprecht
Just finished my master in Robotics @ ETH / Stanford ASL
Started working with Sylvain Corlay & Johan Mabille at @QuantStack on FOSS!
So ... empty!
Start with a
crazy idea
Sand
Localization
Drawings
GPS
Camera (on board)
(Ultra)sound
Laser Range Finder
+
IMU
Kalman Filter
= ~5-10 centimeter accuracy!
Awesome software from France:
CGAL (INRIA)!
What am I doing in Paris?
"NumPy in C++"
Highly efficient multi-dimensional data structures
https://github.com/QuantStack/xtensor
https://github.com/wolfv/xtensor_ros
Check it out @ http://www.odriverobotics.com
Thanks!
Questions?
Collaborators on BeachBot:
Paul Beardsley (DRZ), Prof. Roland Siegwart (ASL/ETHZ)
Lorenz Wellhausen, Timo Müller, Roman Müller, Timon Homberger,
Markus Stäuble, Dominik Rüttimann,
Manuel Rossegger, Philipp Bühler
How to build a ...Sand drawing robot!
By Wolf Vollprecht
