Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Rhoeby the LIDAR Hexapod”.
My name is John Jordan, and the project is Roby. The navigation capable hexapod. We have two things here today: one is the navigation capable robot, the the other is the two-dimensional lidar scanner that we have developed at Roby dynamics. Lidar is a light radar, so light imaging a detection and ranging, and so what this is, is it’s a light that spins around rather like a lighthouse and sends out a pulse of light weights for that light to come back it measures the time it took for The light to travel and from that it derives the distance to the object. The lidar will we’re not selling the lidar yet, but it’s anticipated to retail around three hundred and fifty dollars.
So so the lidar we’ve developed is in fact the smallest lightest and lowest cost lidar on the the robot is based on a kit from a company called robot s. It’S a customized version of their spider. Robot we’ve fitted the lidar scanner to it and we have integrated it with the robot operating system. The robot operating system provides the map building capabilities.
It provides a thing called, simultaneous localization and mapping otherwise known as slam, and it provides the obstacle avoidance capabilities. So all these things together work to allow the robot to move around in its environment autonomously. It can build a map of its environment and it can avoid obstacles dynamic, .