Re:Darpa Seeks Tools to Capture Underground Worlds in 3D
by blh on Thursday May 09, 2019 @03:22PM
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For larger environments you tend to need a full-blown SLAM system that can close loops to avoid drift that accumulates inevitably.
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Re:Darpa Seeks Tools to Capture Underground Worlds in 3D
by jefft255 on Thursday May 09, 2019 @04:00PM
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Yes, this is what he means. It uses visual/laser information (sometimes combined with the IMU like the phones you talk about) to map and track movement.
Re:Darpa Seeks Tools to Capture Underground Worlds in 3D
by Frost1x on Thursday May 09, 2019 @05:50PM
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They also want to create dynamic meshes on the fly for use in OTS game engines which is quite a challenge.
I'm not sure why everyone in that domain is obsessed with meshes and won't work with a voxel rendering system which seems more flexible for most types of current geometry capture techniques. I get that they want to reuse existing simulators using existing gaming technologies but sometimes its fitting a square car through a round garden hose.