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Joris _

DARPA Looking for Partner On Wireless Spacecraft Demo | SpaceNews.com - 1 views

www.spacenews.com/...-wireless-spacecraft-demo.html

darpa technology fractionned

shared by Joris _ on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
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  • DARPA for several years has been working on a program dubbed System F6 that seeks to prove that a cluster of small spacecraft can perform the mission of a large spacecraft by communicating wirelessly with one another in space
  • DARPA plans to launch three dedicated System F6 spacecraft either to low Earth orbit or geostationary orbit in mid-2013 to 2014
  • semi-autonomous cluster reconfiguration
Ma Ru

Multi-robot olfactory search in structured environments (Robotics and Autonomous Systems) - 3 views

www.sciencedirect.com/...S0921889011001321

technology INF robotics science

shared by Ma Ru on 03 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Ma Ru on 03 Aug 11
     
    Anyhow related to the "scent of science"?
Francesco Biscani

Why three buses come at once, and how to avoid it - physics-math - 29 October 2009 - Ne... - 4 views

www.newscientist.com/...-once-and-how-to-avoid-it.html

shared by Francesco Biscani on 29 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Now systems complexity researchers Carlos Gershenson and Luis Pineda of the National Autonomous University of Mexico have devised a mathematical model that shows how the problem might be prevented
  • Francesco Biscani on 29 Oct 09
     
    This is from Carlos, the guy who gave a science coffee talk a couple of months ago.
Ma Ru

Euroscience Open Forum 2010 - 2 views

www.esof2010.org

science conference Europe

shared by Ma Ru on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    A conference ACT should consider going to.
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  • Ma Ru on 23 Apr 10
     
    Perhaps some of ACTers will find this conference interesting... One of the talks: "Would Einstein be on Twitter? Exploring the potential and limits of Web 2.0 in science & science communication" [Edit] Oh, I see someone has already posted this link... a year ago. Anyway, if anyone of you plans to go, let me know - I'll be around ;-)
  • Ma Ru on 08 Jul 10
     
    Just came back from ESOF 2010... I was on look for ACT agents undercover, but either they were not there or the cover was good enough... Anyway here's a few remarks from me (I could write a nice report... if you paid): 1) In general, to say that ESA was underrepresented on the conference as a whole is not enough (I guess ESA just failed to notice the event taking place). For instance, on the GMES presentation, ESA as such was not mentioned at all... at some point I started to wonder if ESA is actually involved in the project, but now I checked the website and apparently it is. On the other hand, GMES presentation was crap anyway, as after 1:15 of talking, I didn't gain any knowledge of what GMES is and what its contributions to the EU community will be. 2) There was a lot of talk about LHC and particle research (well, at least among those that I attended). Some of them were very good, some of them rather crap... 3) "Would Einstein be on Twitter? Exploring the potential and limits of Web 2.0 in science & science communication" talk - quite interesting, but focusing mainly on Science-to-Wide Public and Science-to-Journalists communication. Not really on Science-to-Science (as in Ariadnet). There was quite an extensive discussion with the public. You may be interested that Nature is trying to stimulate Web 2.0 communication, running blog service, but also I think a kind of social network - perhaps you'd like to have a look. In general the conclusion was that Web 2.0 is not so useful for scientific communication because practising it requires TIME (blogs, etc.) and often some professional skills (podcasts/videocasts, etc.), and scientists have neither of these. This can be run on corporation level (like ESA does actually), but then it looses the "intimate" character. 4) "How much can robots learn?" talk... very nicely presented: understandable by the wide public, but conveying the message... which is something like "we can already make the robots do stuff absolutely imp
  • Ma Ru on 08 Jul 10
     
    Well, my comment was cut in half, and I don't feel like typing it again... the most important highlight from the rest is that the only presenter from ESA (ESTEC) did not show up on his talk because his department was undergoing some sort of audit on the same day :)
  • LeopoldS on 08 Jul 10
     
    Fantastic comment - or better report!! thanks very much Marek! Who was the supposed no-show speaker from ESA?
  • Ma Ru on 08 Jul 10
     
    Bernard Foing (he is actually one of the 8 ESA employees who have their own page on Wikipedia)...
  • LeopoldS on 08 Jul 10
     
    written almost entirely by a guy called a "quest for knowledge" ... who will this be????? :-)
Ian Carnelli

Quadrocopter Ball Juggling - 3 views

www.youtube.com/watch

quadrocopter AI

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  • Ian Carnelli on 01 Apr 11
     
    probably not very new but certainly impressive!
  • Joris _ on 03 Apr 11
Thijs Versloot

NASA's 'Swarmies' are a squad of smaller, less intelligent rovers - 0 views

www.engadget.com/...nasa-swarmies

robot swarm AI

shared by Thijs Versloot on 27 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Thijs Versloot on 27 Aug 14
     
    Typically, we send rovers to our planetary neighbors one at a time -- but what if we sent a small team of smaller, less impressive robots instead? That's the idea NASA is exploring at Kennedy Space Center with Swarmies: a quartet of four autonomous robots designed to work together to complete a single mission.
Ma Ru

Ambition - 0 views

www.esa.int/ESA

FUN ESA Rosetta technology art

shared by Ma Ru on 15 Mar 13 - No Cached
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  • Guido de Croon on 15 Mar 13
     
    Today we released the Astro Drone app. People that have the Parrot AR drone can freely download the game. While they fly their drone in the real world, they are trying to dock to the ISS in the virtual world. But the app is more than a game. Players can choose to participate in a scientific crowd sourcing experiment that aims to improve autonomous capabilities of space probes, such as landing, obstacle avoidance, and docking. If participating, the app extracts visually salient features from the images made by the drone's camera. The features are then combined with the estimates of the drone's state and uploaded. The data is then used in a research aiming to improve robot navigation.
  • Ma Ru on 08 Nov 14
     
    Visit the main ESA website and you'll be greeted with a 6-minute Rosetta promo movie by a kickass Polish artist... P.S. You can also find the video here. P.P.S It seems I've just discovered a way to hijack old diigo entries ;-)
Ingmar Getzner

The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage - 4 views

www.youtube.com/watch

technology AI

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  • Thijs Versloot on 17 Dec 15
     
    Read this this morning in the train, what a story! Awesome guy, I wish him all the luck kicking against the established companies... Seems he has a bet with Elon Musk to outperform the current autonomous driving algoritms using his AI techniques. He is actually driving a lot with his car via Uber, to gain material to train his NN on :)
Guido de Croon

New theory allows drones to see distances with one eye - 2 views

www.tudelft.nl/...nes-afstanden-zien-met-een-oog

AI science BIO

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  • Guido de Croon on 07 Jan 16
     
    Inspired by the work that was done at the ACT, I continued working on optical flow landing at TU Delft. Today Bio & Bio published my article on a new theory that allows drones to see distances with a single camera. It shows that drones approaching an object with an insect-inspired vision strategy become unstable at a specific distance from the object. Turning this weakness into a strength, drones can actually use the timely detection of that instability to estimate distance. The new theory will enable further miniaturization of autonomous drones and provides a new hypothesis on flying insect behavior. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm7SMJp8EA4&feature=youtu.be Article: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-3190/11/1/016004
hannalakk

Design of a multi-agent, fiber composite digital fabrication system | Science Robotics - 3 views

robotics.sciencemag.org/...eaau5630.full

space architecture robotics fiberglass

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  • hannalakk on 27 Sep 18
     
    Swarm-based fabrication of interwoven composite tubes via a fully autonomous, cooperative system can help create architectural-scale structures in effective and efficient ways, including in remote environments.
eblazquez

[2106.09125] Convex Optimization for Trajectory Generation - 0 views

arxiv.org/2106.09125

Optimization

shared by eblazquez on 16 Sep 21 - No Cached
  • eblazquez on 16 Sep 21
     
    Very cool recap document on state of the art sequential convex programming and lossless convexification techniques. It's written by the main authors who work on these, worth a look if you're into autonomous trajectory planning.
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