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[{"user_id": 4330, "stars": [], "topic_id": 41111, "date_created": 1309786368.0307939, "message": "This is interesting - using an off-board Kinect. Not a long-range, outdoor solution, but something to consider.", "group_id": 9523, "id": 1559647}, {"user_id": 4330, "stars": [], "topic_id": 41111, "date_created": 1309786312.4065261, "message": "http://m.engadget.com/default/article.do?artUrl=http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/04/quadrocopters-reined-in-by-kinect-leash-we-feel-safer-already/&category=classic&postPage=1", "group_id": 9523, "id": 1559644}, {"user_id": 31902, "stars": [], "topic_id": 41111, "date_created": 1309794119.0177691, "message": "Seems 2 Kinects would provide enough data to get detailed motion analysis for testing flight.  Anyone have experience working with them?  Or hardware that could be borrowed?", "group_id": 9523, "id": 1560462}, {"user_id": 31902, "stars": [], "topic_id": 41111, "date_created": 1309832247.157218, "message": "http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xg2chp_quadrotor-autonomous-flight-and-obstacle-avoidance-with-kine_tech", "group_id": 9523, "id": 1563855}, {"user_id": 31902, "stars": [], "topic_id": 41111, "date_created": 1309832387.013166, "message": "This is of great interest to me. Will need to look into electrical and computational power requirements of Kinect for autonomous application.", "group_id": 9523, "id": 1563875}, {"user_id": 4330, "stars": [], "topic_id": 41111, "date_created": 1309835733.2822731, "message": "I've been wondering how light the lightest laptop (minus monitor, etc) would weigh, & how much power it would take to fly it for... 3hrs.", "group_id": 9523, "id": 1564291}, {"user_id": 4330, "stars": [], "topic_id": 41111, "date_created": 1309835639.4254601, "message": "Jason has experience, or attended a class on it, I think. A few of them would make a Robot more situationally aware than Humans. Microsoft encourages hacking too.", "group_id": 9523, "id": 1564283}, {"user_id": 31902, "stars": [], "topic_id": 41111, "date_created": 1309863302.5420909, "message": "@jasonaloy Have you played around with the Kinect much?  On what platform?", "group_id": 9523, "id": 1566189}, {"user_id": 4330, "stars": [], "topic_id": 41111, "date_created": 1309863809.5995419, "message": "Thought you had some experience somehow. Didn't you attend a class/meeting?", "group_id": 9523, "id": 1566211}, {"user_id": 31506, "stars": [], "topic_id": 41111, "date_created": 1309897144.9552269, "message": "I attended a meeting a while back, where someone hooked up a kinect to a icreate and ROS and had it do some visual-related tasks. I haven't hacked a kinect or used ROS before myself", "group_id": 9523, "id": 1570031}, {"user_id": 31506, "stars": [], "topic_id": 41111, "date_created": 1309897150.703475, "message": "http://www.bilibot.com/. He used an Intel i3 processor. He says other people are using atom processors to be more energy efficient, but they don't have the computing power to handle the full resolution of the kinect in real time.", "group_id": 9523, "id": 1570034}, {"user_id": 31506, "stars": [], "topic_id": 41111, "date_created": 1309897323.5841379, "message": "I believe that people (including the bilibot guy) are currently making open source libraries for the kinect on ROS (Robot Operating System), however I assume that they may be power hogs to do the calculations. It might be possible to stream that data to a land-based pc, but I'm not sure about the bandwidth requirements.", "group_id": 9523, "id": 1570059}, {"user_id": 31902, "stars": [], "topic_id": 41111, "date_created": 1309899893.9758401, "message": "Okay, yeah, the \"power hog\" issue is the concern that comes to my mind first too.  I know that there are hybrid CPU / FPGA development boards.  Perhaps there is a way to increase energy efficiency and processing speed with reconfigurable hardware.  The main long-term question on my mind is how good of a bandwidth vs energy tradeoff we can get.  A more immediate concern is learning how to work with and design topologies for FPGAs in practice.", "group_id": 9523, "id": 1570524}, {"user_id": 31902, "stars": [], "topic_id": 41111, "date_created": 1309900092.7519801, "message": "Another thought might be GPU assistance, which I understand to have a better energy efficiency and be particularly suited to data parallel computing like image processing.  Iirc, OpenCV can actually take advantage of CUDA (or maybe it's OpenCL?) enabled GPUs now.", "group_id": 9523, "id": 1570554}, {"user_id": 4330, "stars": [], "topic_id": 41111, "date_created": 1310140633.5646329, "message": "MIT (Jason's Alma Mater) Uses Kinect to map GPS-restricted areas. Link: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/rrg/index.php?n=Main.VisualOdometryForGPS-DeniedFlight", "group_id": 9523, "id": 1593928}, {"user_id": 4330, "stars": [], "topic_id": 41111, "date_created": 1310140722.502984, "message": "On a quad, I neglected to mention.", "group_id": 9523, "id": 1593944}, {"user_id": 4330, "stars": [], "topic_id": 41111, "date_created": 1310263962.5257449, "message": "More Kinect uses: http://kinectedconference.media.mit.edu/", "group_id": 9523, "id": 1602295}]