Autonomous X3: Racing, Drones, Robotic Dogs
Watch this video to learn more about three D-ITET Center for Project-Based Learning projects: autonomous racing, autonomous drones, and robotic dogs.
Learn more about these autonomous-based projects and how the work may lead to future applications.
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00:00:01 at the the heated center of project-based learning we are focusing on energy efficient smart sensor and embedded system we are offering a unique education opportunity combining a strong educational background with and on skills and in particular we are showcasing the benefit of our approach in three different application domains such as autonomous racing autonomous
00:00:25 robot and the drones we are working with F1 Dev which is a 1 to 10 scale autonomous racing platform there are multiple competitions during a year that can motivate a lot the students the furthermore the very small form factor can help us prototyping very fast and actually seeing the results that the students work on on a real car in a real
00:00:50 environment the goal of the robot Flagship project is to help blind people navigating their everyday life guide Dogs cost a lot of money to train and our aim is to develop a robotic system that is able to navigate autonomously in an unseen environments and guide the blind people avoiding obstacles to achieve that goal we use a
00:01:13 commercially available robotic dog and we built additional Hardware on top including new sensors and additional computational units we are working with nanodrones these are those tiny around 35 gram drones which we want to make fly autonomously so the two demos you see are once it's trying to avoid people or any obstacles the other demo is using a camera and the
00:01:39 time of flight sensor to find the gate in a room and then fly through it you could use that like imagine a earthquake or something where you want to pass through narrow spaces to to explore the area which is dangerous to enter for people foreign