deckard

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   by deckard 16y ago

   Forgot to answer the question in my previous post. It probably has the laser scanner on board because it was already there before the Kinect was attached, used as the input to the SLAM system, and why bother to take it off? It gives better
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   by deckard 16y ago

   The Hokuyo device is a linear scanning laser rangefinder with much better accuracy and range than stereo camera + texture projector (like the Kinect) sensors are achieving. It costs around $2000. That device itself was a revolution when it
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   by deckard 16y ago

   "What kind of application blocks on disk IO but nothing else for extended amounts of time? I'm having a hard time seeing how installing an SSD and maxing out your cores are terribly related otherwise" Virtual memory paging to/from disk. Thi
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   by deckard 17y ago

   Sure. We started doing this last summer, and this is the first paper accepted for publication that uses the method. http://autonomy.cs.sfu.ca/doc/wawerla_icra10.pdf and here's a draft of our paper on the methodology, with rationale. Long
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   by deckard 17y ago

   Here's a practical solution I have proposed in my community (autonomous robots): 1. package code and data into tarball or VCS repo.; 2. place package on long-lived website; 3. compute SHA1 hash or similar from package (if git is used, this