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Laser Odometry and Mapping (LOAM)
Some examples of LOAM in practice. Ji has made his LOAM algorithm available online as part of ROS. The LOAM algorithm dynamically registers and builds a 3D map from laser scan data obtained with a...
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New ARIA Flier and project overview
We’ve created a flier to briefly describe the ARIA project. Also, we’ve expanded our About ARIA page to provide a detailed description of the project, its goals and challenges, and our approach to the...
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Futuristic Infrastructure Inspection in Pennsylvania
ARIA is featured in this quarter’s Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA) newsletter. The PITA program was instrumental in getting funding for the ARIA project under NSF’s NRI program.
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Children inspect their own bridges with laser scanners
The students from one team scan their bridge with the Leica scanner Last weekend, we taught an all day class to 7th-9th grade students from around the Pittsburgh area. The class is part of CMU’s...
View ArticleScanning the robot city railroad bridge
Last Saturday, we spent the day scanning a small railroad bridge located in “Robot City.” Robot City is located on the site of the LTV Cokeworks, and is in the process of being redeveloped as prime...
View ArticleLOAM paper accepted to RSS
Ji’s paper “LOAM: Lidar Odometry and Mapping in Real-time” was accepted to the Robotics Systems and Science conference (RSS). The RSS conference is one of the most well-respected robotics conference,...
View ArticleARIA featured by the SPIE
This week, the ARIA project was featured in an article we wrote for the SPIE Newsroom. The article provides a short overview of the project, its goals, and our current state of performance (PDF).
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2014 ARIA Symposium
This week, we hosted about two dozen representatives from industry, government, and academia for the first ARIA project symposium held here at Carnegie Mellon. The Northeastern University team members...
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Workshop on 3D computer vision in the built environment
Last week, we journeyed to Tokyo, Japan, to lead a workshop entitled “3D Computer Vision in the Built Environment.” The workshop was held in conjunction with the International Conference on 3D vision...
View ArticlePresident Obama Controls Robot to Inspect Bridge at Frontier’s Conference
A couple weeks ago, we presented our work in the White House Frontier’s Conference here in Pittsburgh. We performed a live demo to President Obama where he controlled one of our robots to successfully...
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