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Why does a Roomba need a camera looking UP? Why are they labeling furniture in home that Roomba can't possibly reach from the floor?
by tintor 4y ago
Why does a Roomba need a camera looking UP?
Why are they labeling furniture in home that Roomba can't possibly reach from the floor?
- cma 4y agoSay a couch has shiny metallic legs that mess with the depth estimation. An estimate of where the corners of the couch are could give better estimate of the legs and weight one possibility more than another.
- outworlder 4y agoThat's for navigation. You want to be able to tell it to 'clean the living room', it needs to know what the living room is(or some of the landmarks). The robots are low on the ground, so tilting the camera up helps. That's not the only approach though. You can look forward (or just use lidar), but this navigation approach seems to be less sensitive to, say, furniture been moved around.
- fragmede 4y agoI mean, the Roomba drives itself under the couch and gets stuck on it because of a lack of clearance. If you're working at iRobot and trying to make better Roombas, and need more data as to why your height sensor aren't working to prevent the condition, isn't a camera looking up the obvious way forwards to collect additional data?