PLVS code released
I am happy to release the code of my project PLVS. PLVS is a real-time system that leverages sparse RGB-D and Stereo SLAM, volumetric mapping, and
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Luigi Freda
Robotics & Computer Vision Engineer, PhD
Robotics
slamplay is ready!
If you love to play with SLAM like me, I shared slamplay on github: https://github.com/luigifreda/slamplay. slamplay is a collection of powerful
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3DMR – 3D Multi-Robot Exploration with a Two-Level Coordination Strategy and Prioritization
Check out the new 3DMR project on 3D multi-robot exploration in collaboration with Prof. Rui Rocha, David Portugal, and Tiago
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My new pySLAM v2 is out!
I am excited to release pySLAM v2. The new version allows you to play with SLAM techniques, visual-odometry, keyframes, bundle-adjustment,
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Visual Perception and Spatial Computing
On February 2019, I was the teacher of the course Visual Perception and Spatial Computing in the Advanced School of AI. This school
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3Dpatrolling – 3D Multi-Robot Patrolling with a Two-Level Coordination Strategy
I am very excited to release the paper 3D Multi-Robot Patrolling with a Two-Level Coordination Strategy (just appeared in Autonomous Robots) and
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TRADR on EuroNews
The TRADR EU project is on Euronews. The video report shows the simulated disaster scene we used in the last
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Handle – the new creature of Boston Dynamics
Handle is definitely a big Wow. From the youtube video description: “Handle is a research robot that stands 6.5 ft
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Driverless cars that ‘see’ the road ahead
Micheal Milford explains how to make a driverless car see the road ahead. From his Google+ post: “We were asked to
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Mekamon and AR battles
A nice meka with the option to engage AR battles
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Do we need self-driving cars?
This post reports that a self-driving Uber car was involved in a high-speed crash in Tempe, Arizona. No one was
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DJI launches ultraportable iOS-connected Mavic Pro camera drone
Drone maker DJI unveiled its latest flying camera: a foldable, portable, sub-$1,000 device dubbed the Mavic Pro. This seems to
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Agile Drone Flight through Narrow Gaps with Onboard Sensing and Computing
From Google+, Davide Scaramuzza presents his last work on perception aware path planning for quadrotors. “I am happy to share
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The Going Rate for Self-driving Talent is $10 million per Person, word of Sebastian Thrun
According to this post, Sebastian Thrun said “Uber has just bought a half-a-year-old company [Otto] with 70 employees for almost $700
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TRADR Team and Vigili del Fuoco in Amatrice
It was a great life experience being part of the TRADR team who successfully deployed two UGVs and three drones
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