Skull Crusher Debut

This past week we had a team testing an improved version of stereo visual teach and repeat on the Mars Emulation Terrain in Montreal, Quebec, with our brand new Grizzly mobile robot, "Skull Crusher".  We taught a 1 km path that was partly on the Mars terrain and partly in the adjacent wooded area.  We were able to repeat this path over a wide variety of lighting conditions 26 times, with 23 of these being 100% autonomous and the others over 99% autonomous.  Results to be submitted to ICRA 2015.  Fun times!

Thriller at CRV

Several members of ASRL are in Montreal this week attending the Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) and the NSERC Canadian Field Robotics Network (NCFRN) annual field trials.  We had a good year at CRV with Chris Ostafew's paper winning the Best Robotics Paper Award and Chi Hay Tong's PhD thesis garnering an honourable mention for the CIPPRS Doctoral Dissertation Award.  The CRV banquet was held at a wax museum, hence the pic.