A first dataset using a passenger car integrating the Velodyne VLP16 LiDAR unit, a stereo camera solution based on the oCam : 5MP USB 3.0 Camera and the myAHRS inertial measurement unit. Below a few screenshots and video segments running the CMU Laser Odometry And Mapping. The dataset will soon be released publicly.  Below, instances of the tests:

Result of mapping of the West Stadium parking second floor. 
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Navigation around the UNR campus - Virginia and Evans Str.
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We are glad to announce the open-source release of the Motion Analysis Cortex Mocap system ROS Bridge. The code can be found in our open repository: https://github.com/unr-arl/cortex_ros_bridge

Below a screenshot from the tracked body at RVIZ

Back from ICRA 2016. Below the presentations from the papers I have co-authored with my students, a presentation for the iEEE-SIGHT and the workshop on Aerial Manipulation. 

It was about time - although it took a while to initiate fixed-wing UAV research in a new place.

Through four talented undergraduate students (Murillo B, Brandon T, Jason R, Matt B) and a pilot (Phillip T) a platform for fixed-wing related research was developed. The system is designed around the Skywalker X8 platform (2.1m wingspan) and integrates a Pixhawk autopilot with IMU/Baro/GPS/Airspeed sensing), a high-level Intel i5 Processor and camera systems to further enable autonomy research. 

This flight was not autonomous and the goal was to simply verify avionics, high level processing, telemetry and the overall vehicle behavior. But autonomy is on its way! Below some further photos and a video of this first short flight.