Team 31 CART Update (02/14/2020)
Thanks for reading our blog! If this is your first time seeing on our blog, you might want to start by reading our first blog post . Progress since our last post Since the last post, we’ve fully pivoted away from using 3D LIDAR. Feel free to read our last blog post for more information, but the key point is that we don’t have enough money to buy a 3D LIDAR (but we hope future teams will be able to purchase and use the Velabit when it is released later this year). Instead, we’ll utilize depth cameras and high precision, 1-D laser scanners. We have a free depth camera (an Intel RealSense , courtesy of IEEE Makerspace) and a couple of loaner laser scanners (courtesy of the NCALM ). We were able to test the RealSense earlier this week. After reconfiguring the camera for a couple of hours, we were able to get indoor depth readings for distances of up to 23 feet, (~7m) which is great, but below our goal of 10m. On a bright but cloudy day, we were able to get depth readings of up to 40 f...