Last week was the
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference, held in Berkeley, California. Tim presented our latest findings on viewing
batch continuous-time trajectory estimation as exactly sparse Gaussian process regression and Jon presented a new sample-based path-planning algorithm,
BIT*, that uses heuristics to help guide the search analogously to A* but in continuous spaces. The dinner on the last night was held at Google headquarters in Mountain View and we had a chance to go for a ride in one of the self-driving cars…very very impressive stuff!
