Weekly Robotics #145

submited by

Style Pass

2021-05-31 11:00:06

I have an ask: did you ever work with any sort of LiDAR system and felt some eye fatigue afterwards? If yes, please let me know, as I’m keen to compare notes! My space-related links backlog grew out of proportion this past week, so let me open up this newsletter issue by quickly going through them. As usual in the past couple of weeks, the publication of the week section is manned by Rodrigo. The most clicked link last week was the JOSS paper on Slam Toolbox with 16.4% opens.

First on the radar is the Ingenuity’s flight anomaly caused by a single camera frame drop that led to issues with timestamping following images, which in turn caused flight oscillations as high as 20 degrees in pitch and roll. Big thanks to Loy for sharing this news in the WR Slack channel.

China’s Zhurong rover had successfully landed on Mars. Unfortunately, there are not too many images available at the moment, but you will find some in this BBC article.