by Nick Mikhailovsky, CEO and Co-Founder of NTRLab.
Marc Andreessen said, “…the life of any startup can be divided into two parts – before product/market fit and after product/market fit.” It’s a kind of magic thing, without which a startup stands little chance of success. That said, how do you define it beyond “you know it when you see it?”
By Leonid Bulyga, Robot Navigation System Developer at NTRLab.
To successfully function, a robot needs to know its place in space, in other words, its exact location on the map.
The Navigation Stack, which includes SLAM, allows the robot to build a map, determine its position on it and move around relying on its “feelings.”
Let us consider in more detail what each element of the navigation stack is responsible for.
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As you may already know, one of the projects that our developers worked on (the expert AI team at NTR Lab) was a project for drones that can work indoors. NTR Lab created unique, embedded software for UAV autonomous indoor navigation.
The original object of the SLAM method was quite narrow. But more and more, as this technology becomes popular and more applicable on practice, we are moving swiftly towards a future we watched in movies.
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