Ocular Robotics' range of RobotEye RE0x 3D Scanning LIDAR systems deliver unique capabilities in the ability to direct the attention of the scanned beam to the region of interest of the application at the resolution required by the application down to 0.01 degree increments on a moment by moment basis. Take a mobile robotics application where you may want 3 lines between zero to five degrees about the horizon for obstacle avoidance updated at 5Hz while travelling from one point to the next. When the robot arrives at its destination it may need to paint a wider region in order to interact with an object put 100, 1000, up to a maximum of 3000 lines across an elevation range of -10 degrees to +20 degrees elevation for example to give the point density required for the designated task. In fact RE0x scanners even enable the scanning of user definable rectangular regions anywhere in the 360 degree azimuth by 70 degree elevation range of the RE0x scanners.
Ocular Robotics and Open Perception plan to undertake a Code Sprint aimed at developing a simulator for the RE0x sensors to allow the community to test the unique scanning capabilities of Ocular Robotics' 3D scanners in their applications and to evaluate the benefits to their projects of the freedom to direct the attention of their 3D LIDAR scanning resource to the region of interest at the resolution required on a moment by moment basis.
The sprint will run for 3 months in the spring of 2014. Potential candidates should submit the following information to jobs@pointclouds.org:
a brief resume
a list of existing PCL contributions (if any)
a list of projects (emphasis on open source projects please) that they contributed to in the past