RoboEarth at ICRA 2011

The RoboEarth team made the effort to build a nice demo for ICRA2011. The project's Object Recorder was presented at the RoboEarth booth, showing how to build 3d models of objects and share them through RoboEarth with ease. The demo attracted a lot of interest and feedback, as visitors could use the system themselves in order to build models of arbitrary objects and make them available worldwide in an instant.

For this purpose a low cost sensor was used: the Microsoft Kinect.

The object under investigation has to be placed on a marker table, that holds the following pattern: marker_template. It is important to print it out the same size (marker edge length of 80.0 mm). This AR markers are used to register the point cloud for the model from different views without any expensive computations. The software used for the demo is part of the RoboEarth open source software initiative and will be released among other software components in July 2011. The shared object models can be downloaded and used by robots and other intelligent systems to recognize objects, they didn't know about before.