3D Imaging and Mapping Technologies for Autonomous Robotic Exploration

Principal Investigator: Jan-Michael Frahm
Funding Agency: Texas A&M University
Agency Number: S100013

Abstract
In this project we developed a path planning for robots to automatically reconstruct an unknown environment. Moreover we developed methods to allow a swarm of robots to use the previously known 3D models to perform vision-based localization for navigation. All developed methods are aiming at real-time performance to enable live operation.