guiding robot planes with hand gestures
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aircraft-carrier crew use a set of standard hand gestures to guide planes on the carrier deck but as robot planes are increasingly used for routine air missions researchers at mit are working on a system that would enable them to follow the same types of gesturesthe problem of interpreting hand signals has two distinct parts the first is simply inferring the body pose of the signaler from a digital image: are the hands up or down the elbows in or out the second is determining which specific gesture is depicted in a series of images the mit researchers are chiefly concerned with the second problem they present their solution in the march issue of the journal acm transactions on interactive intelligent systems but to test their approach they also had to address the first problem which they did in work presented at last year039s ieee international conference on automatic face and gesture recognitionyale song a phd student in mit039s department of electrical engineering and computer science his advisor computer science professor randall davis and david demirdjian a research scientist at mit039s computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory csail recorded a series of videos in which several different people performed a set of 24 gestures commonly used by aircraft-carrier deck personnel in order to test their gesture-identification system they first had to determine the body pose of each subject in each frame of video quotthese days you can just easily use off-the-shelf kinect or many other driversquot song says referring to the popular microsoft xbox device that allows players to control video games using gestures but that wasn039t true when the mit researchers began their project to make things even more complicated their algorithms had to infer not only body position but also the shapes of the subjects039 handsread more: http:webmitedunewsoffice2012robots-hand-gestures-0314htmlvideo: melanie gonicksimulations courtesy of yale song

ford leadership in autonomous vehicle research
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ford is tripling its fleet of fully autonomous ford fusion hybrid test vehicles making it the largest in the automotive industry and will use a new-generation sensor technology as the company further accelerates its autonomous vehicle development plansbuilding on more than a decade of ford autonomous vehicle research ford is planning to add 20 fusion hybrid autonomous vehicles bringing the company039s autonomous fleet to about 30 vehicles being tested on roads in california arizona and michigan this expansion is a key element of ford smart mobility the plan to take ford to the next level in connectivity mobility autonomous vehicles the customer experience and data and analytics the newest vehicles are on fords third-generation autonomous vehicle development platform built using fusion hybrid sedans similar to the second-generation platform

icra 2015 avert: an autonomous multi-robot system for vehicle extraction and transportation
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accompanying video for the paper quotavert: an autonomous multi-robot system for vehicle extraction and transportationquot to be presented at the international conference on robotics and automation icra2015 may 26-30 seattle washington usaauthors: angelos amanatiadis christopher henschel bernd birkicht benjamin andel konstantinos charalampous ioannis kostavelis richard may and antonios gasteratosin this video a swarm of robots is able to extract vehicles from confined spaces with delicate handling swiftly and in any direction the novel lifting robots are capable of omnidirectional movement thus they can under-ride the desired vehicle and dock to its wheels for a synchronized lifting and extraction the overall developed system applies reasoning about available trajectory paths wheel identification local and undercarriage obstacle detection in order to fully automate the processincluded in the official icra 2015 video trailer https:youtubeom_1f33fcwkt=70you can read a preprint of the paper here: http:roboticspmeduthgrdocsicra2015_amanatiadispdfmore details:http:wwwavertprojecteuhttp:roboticspmeduthgramanatiadisavert

project tango: nasa spheres
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project tango prepping for launch into spacesince the summer of 2013 the project tango team has been working closely with a team at the nasa ames research center the goal: to integrate a project tango prototype onto a robotic platform called spheres that flies inside the international space station the spheres program aims to develop zero-gravity autonomous platforms that could act as robotic assistants for astronauts or perform maintenance activities independently on station the 3d-tracking and mapping capabilities of project tango would allow spheres to reconstruct a 3d-map of the space station and for the first time in history enable autonomous navigation of a floating robotic platform 230 miles above the surface of the earthproject tango and spheres are scheduled to be launched into orbit this summer the future is awesome

stanford039s robotic audi tts
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stanford039s latest robot car an autonomous audi tts will race to the top of pikes peak in 2010 read more at http:wwwbotjunkiecom20091024stanfords-new-robotic-audi-tts-knows-how-to-drift-will-tackle-pikes-peak-next-year

what we039ve learned so far about the future of cars in 2018
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from ces to the detroit auto show car makers are showing off their vision of the future of driving with a few nods to the past

james and rosie preparing popcorn and sandwiches
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world-class safety features in 2014 volvo xc90
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volvo car group reveals a number of user-friendly safety and support technologies that will be introduced in the all-new volvo xc90 at the end of 2014quotwe are introducing the first volvos with autonomous steering to avoid accidents and make driving more comfortablequot says thomas broberg senior safety advisor volvo car groupto view multimedia news release go to http:wwwmultivucommnr61938-volvo-car-reveals-safety-support-features-xc90

navya autonom cab 2019 exterior and interior
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2019 navya autonom cab autonomous shuttle seen from outside and inside the first robo-taxi on the market autonomous personalized and shared this unique mobility solution provides an answer to urban mobility039s major challenges length 486 m width 195 m height 210 m engine is electric top speed 90 kmh operating speed 50 kmh passengers 6 electric sliding door composite bodywork battery is pack lifepo4 average autonomy 10 hours max charge duration 80 9h 10a 5h 32a localization and obstacle detection: lidars 1: three 360 multi-layer lidars lidars2: seven 145 multi-layer lidars 6 cameras 4 radars central inertial unit wheel and engine encoders gps rtk v2xthe car was shown at paris motor show 2018

all about lidar the laser-shooting wonder box that could make self-driving cars real
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also known as the spinning thing atop self-driving cars lidar is the technology that could unlock autonomy for everybody

making aviation history: x-47b unlocks full potential of unmanned systems capabilities
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in 2013 the x-47b demonstrated the first ever carrier-based launches and recoveries by an autonomous low-observable relevant unmanned aircraft in april of 2015 the x-47b once again made aviation history by successfully conducting the first ever autonomous aerial refueling aar of an unmanned aircraft aar unlocks the full potential of what an unmanned surveillance strike and reconnaissance system can do in support of the navy these historical demonstrations solidify the concept of future unmanned aircraft and proved that the x-47b can perform standard missions like aerial refueling and operate seamlessly with manned aircraft as part of the carrier air wing

google robocar racetrack ride
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i got to race around in one of the google robocars and it was thrilling it felt like a racetrack demo lap where the instructors show off what they can do with wheels squealing at the edge of performance a newfound performance in this case eked out of an intelligence-enhanced prius with no human driver imagine being driven entirely by the car for your work commute in traffic through tollbooths and across bridges to the front door some google engineers are already doing this every day no need to look for a parking space just let the car find one for you as you enter the buildingtwo computers tucked into the trunk are doing all the steering braking and acceleration by issuing commands to the drive-by-wire bus already designed into modern hybrid and electric carsthe spinning lidar on the room maps the environment in 3d including pedestrians and in this case traffic cones a camera to the side of the rear view mirror tracks the road three radar in the front bumper and one in back also detect proximal objects gps inertial sensors and wheel-speed monitors give feedback to the computer on the car039s performancethere are times when i want to drive and times when being a driving machine feels more like the drudgery that is better left to the machines or when you are tired or want a designated driver for an evening out commute time is a staggering collective time waster and ford estimates it will escalate to global gridlock in the near future google039s thrun estimates that autonomous vehicles could pack more closely together and achieve 2-3x throughput improvements from existing roadways with fuel and pollution savings from the efficiency gains and in urban environments the largest amount of drive time is spent looking for a parking space

volvo039s auto driving tech on roads within a decade
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the latest test drive marks the final chapter in a three year long project which has seen the development of the next step in autonomous driving technology since 2009 volvo car corporation has been the driving force behind the eu funded sartre project safe road-trains for the environment bringing vehicle platooning technology one step closer to becoming a reality on europe039s roadsto view multimedia news release go to http:wwwmultivucommnr56600-volvo-car-corporation

volvo puts self-driving cars on public roads
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volvo cars will play a leading role in the world039s first large-scale autonomous driving pilot project in which 100 self-driving volvo cars will use public roads in everyday driving conditions around the swedish city of gothenburgthe aim is to pinpoint the societal benefits of autonomous driving and position sweden and volvo cars as leaders in the development of future mobilityto view multimedia news release go to http:wwwmultivucommnr64153-volvo-self-driving-cars-unique-swedish-project

volvo self-driving cars
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volvo cars presents a unique complete system solution that makes it possible to integrate self-driving cars into real traffic with ordinary people in the drivers seat we are entering uncharted territory in the field of autonomous driving says dr peter mertens senior vice president research and development of volvo car group taking the exciting step to a public pilot with the ambition to enable ordinary people to sit behind the wheel in normal traffic on public roads has never been done before to view the multimedia news release go to http:wwwmultivucomplayersenglish7443851-volvo-first-self-driving-car-system