Tiny Drones Do Distributed Mapping

60 pointsposted 9 months ago
by steamingpenis
(hackaday.com)

7 Comments

godelski

9 months ago

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03136

Code (broken link): https://github.com/ETH-PBL/Nano-C-SLAM

ETH-PBL's page (https://github.com/ETH-PBL/) Does not have a project with similar naming though there is NanoSLAM and Nano_Swarm_Mapping. The former is associated with the paper "NanoSLAM: Enabling Fully Onboard SLAM for Tiny Robots" and the latter with "Fully Onboard SLAM for Distributed Mapping With a Swarm of Nano-Drones"

My guess is that they haven't gotten it through review yet and that's why. Could be for many reasons, I'm not a domain expert here so I'll reserve judgement, but review can be noisy. Still, release the code...

082349872349872

9 months ago

for a half century+ of progress in swarm mapping, compare https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/Photos/igphoto/20...

gradschoolfail

9 months ago

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I’d rate this guy as a drone pro, maybe like you (sig portion of networth invested/day2day ops involvement?)

(The design issues which i referred to was precisly this kind of intertwining with supply demand.. what kind of blasted solar panels is he talking about sota GaAs barely make the cut atm)

so how do you rate my assessment of drone tech up till 3-5 yrs ahead. How foxy was it :)

L: 1965 soyuzmultfilm of cobra v. cub ( & lone “fox”)

Btw, re p=1537 2014 was obviously a date, slightly curious y you’d clarify :)

082349872349872

9 months ago

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BSVogler

9 months ago

Was this text generated by an LLM? This doesn’t make sense.

082349872349872

9 months ago

Tut uns leid; wir sind mittendrin*... Think of it as swarm conversing: if any noun phrase catches your fancy I'd be glad to explain/load your context cache. (für Hesse-Könner: es ist eine Art Glasperlenspiel)

* most natural noises are either bangs or buzzes (localised in time or localised in frequency) so animals commonly use chirps to distinguish their communication from the background; in this case although the typical HN convo approximates a dirac delta: highly time-localised...

EDIT: PS. what are your thoughts on risk reduction as opposed to maturity reliance?