Today we took Ben out to the car-park to test the LADAR  
integration with the video-demonstration code - in short, after  
debugging/fixing we were able to reliably transform the LADAR data  
into a usable map, evaluate our plan through the map and correctly  
identify Tully's car as an obstacle in our path, stop in front of it  
and then transition to the other available lane and then transition  
back to the first lane after passing Tully's car - this was all at  
about 5mph.
We were also able to demonstrate that trajFollower could drive the  
video-demo course that Jim laid out at park and we took the  
reporter who came out with us around the course a couple of times and  
she seemed suitably impressed.  Heeten was also able to make  
significant progress on testing the RNDF generator that uses the  
google-map-esque interface.
There are still some issues that  we need to resolve, primarily  
concerned with the quality of the LADAR maps when driving at higher  
speeds and making reasonably sharp bends, both of which frequently  
lead to significant obstacles being painted into the map, although  
these are rarely sufficiently high to be viewed as obstacles to plan  
around by the video-demo code, the performance should be better than  
it is now.
Alex
Monday, March 26, 2007
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