Where: Room 203/204
Date: Day 2
Start Time: 2:10 pm
End Time: 3:15 pm
Designers of autonomous vehicles, robots and many other systems are faced with a critical challenge: Which 3D vision sensor technology to use? There are a wide variety of sensors on the market, employing modalities including passive stereo, active stereo, time of flight, 2D and 3D lasers and monocular approaches. This talk will provide an overview of 3D vision sensor technologies and their capabilities and limitations, based on our experience selecting the right 3D technology and sensor for a diverse range of autonomous robot designs. There is no perfect sensor technology and no perfect sensor, but there is always a sensor which best aligns witht he requirements of your application — you just need to find it. We’ll describe a quantitative and qualitative evaluation process for 3D vision sensors, including testing processes using both controlled environments and field testing, and some surprising characteristics and limiations we’ve uncovered through that testing.
