{"id":15686,"date":"2015-11-03T11:35:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T17:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15686"},"modified":"2015-11-04T12:20:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T18:20:28","slug":"mit-drone-autonomously-avoids-obstacles-at-30-mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15686","title":{"rendered":"MIT Drone Autonomously Avoids Obstacles at 30 MPH"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>CSAIL says Barry\u2019s software runs 20 times faster than existing obstacle detection software. Operating at 120 frames per second, the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/andybarry\/flight\">open-source software<\/a> allows the drone to detect objects and map its environment in real time, extracting depth information at 8.3 milliseconds per frame.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roboticstrends.com\/article\/watch_mit_drone_autonomously_avoids_obstacles_at_30_mph\/Drones\">Watch: MIT Drone Autonomously Avoids Obstacles at 30 MPH &#8211; Robotics Trends<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barry wrote about the system in his paper \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.csail.mit.edu\/robotics-center\/public_papers\/Barry14a.pdf\">Pushbroom Stereo for High-Speed Navigation in Cluttered Environments<\/a>\u201d (PDF) and says he needs to improve the software so it can work at more than one depth and dense environments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSAIL says Barry\u2019s software runs 20 times faster than existing obstacle detection software. Operating at 120 frames per second, the open-source software allows the drone to detect objects and map its environment in real time, extracting depth information at 8.3 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15686\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[1222,418,387,1099],"class_list":["post-15686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-computer-vision","tag-drones","tag-mit","tag-robotics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15687,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686\/revisions\/15687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}