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This is pretty cool. What would be amazing to also have LIDAR sensors (EXPENSIVE! I know, I know) which would really make amazing data for self driving/complet
by ktta 10y ago
This is pretty cool.
What would be amazing to also have LIDAR sensors (EXPENSIVE! I know, I know) which would really make amazing data for self driving/completely autonomous vehicles; not only cars but also drones, etc.
Anyone know the pro/con for implementing LIDAR (although it maybe super late before we have enough data for effective navigation at long distances), and if it is worth it?
I think it would be really cool to have info about the heights of buildings, exact positions of traffic lights, etc. which are miniscule but crucial for low altitude drone navigation. Or can we infer almost everything from the picture data?
- nitrogen 10y agoHow can you ensure the data remains useful in the face of construction, tree growth, and other changes? I think if we are to allow drones to fly unsupervised, they will need to be limited to annotated environments (that is, locally broadcasting navigation beacons) and will need full sensor suites anyway.
- ktta 10y agoWell the mapping frequency must be increased to account for stuff moving around, but the data like height of buildings is not going to change a lot. But I do get your point of the impracticality.
- kanzure 10y agoAutonomous self-driving cars are hopefully going to cause the price of LIDAR sensors to go down. Once they get super cheap, sure, load up 10 or 20 LIDAR sensors on anything with wheels.
- ktta 10y agoYeah I'm hoping for that. LIDAR has a lot of useful applications not only outdoors but also indoors that the average hobbyist can put to good use.
- Bedon292 10y agoPerhaps something like this instead? http://hforsten.com/homemade-synthetic-aperture-radar.html http://hforsten.com/homemade-synthetic-aperture-radar.html It would still give some interesting information.
- ktta 10y agoThat looks super interesting. Thank you!