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Visual Odometry
Visual odometry is a technique that estimates robot ego-motion from a sequence of stereo images. The image below shows an example of a real-world image and the feature matching that lies at the core...
View ArticleTRACLabs awarded Army computer vision contract
The US Army has awarded TRACLabs Inc. a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract worth $750,000 over two years. The contract is to design a compact stereo vision system for use on small...
View ArticleTRACLabs awarded Army thermal vision contract
The US Army has awarded TRACLabs a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to develop a thermal sensing system for robots. The system, called PROWL for Perception for Robotic...
View ArticleRobots in the military
The New York Times recently published an interesting article on robots in the military. Entitled “War Machines: Recruiting Robots for Combat,” the article discusses the latest technologies that are...
View ArticleTracking Humans
It would be quite useful for a robot operator to simply tell the robot “Follow me” and have it track the operator in a variety of situations and environments. TRACLabs and Brown University are...
View ArticleLeader Following and Gesture Recognition
A previous post discussed human following and showed videos of robust human tracking indoors. This work has now been integrated with 2D “best-based” gestures from Brown University in order to allow...
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TRACLabs receives Army STTR award
The US Army has announced that TRACLabs and Texas A&M University will be awarded a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) award worth $150,000. The award is to develop an autonomous...
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TRACLabs interns
TRACLabs was fortunate to have three excellent summer interns this year. These interns improved the capabilities of our mobile manipulation system and also built a high-fidelity Gazebo simulation of...
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Texas A&M researchers visit TRACLabs
Dr. Robin Murphy, Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, and her student Zach Henkel recently visited TRACLabs. Dr. Murphy is collaborating with TRACLabs on...
View ArticleNew Army contract
The US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center (TARDEC) recently announced that it was awarding TRACLabs a $730,000, two-year contract entitled “PROWL: Perception for Robotic...
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