What is Osiris ?
I started off with the idea of making IRIS a basic functional image processing segment for COMRADE. It has evolved beyond its aims to an extent I’d not anticipated. And now, even beyond IRIS-3D (for the moment forgetting the fact that there are lots of refinements still needed), lies Osiris. Osiris is not IRIS, and will soon warrant a much more detailed description than is possible here. Osiris will be the controlling “brain” that IRIS will report to. Please note that Osiris is still what IRIS was about six months ago, but will evolve as fast as its creator can write code 🙂 Among the first things it should be able to do is perform localisation. COMRADE’s odometry is projected to be notoriously erroneous, so vision-based localisation is a good bet. There are some problems, however. • Most localisation systems use omnidirectional vision for triangulation purposes or panoramic images. These require mirrors and other fragile equipment which are prohibitively expensive to set up. • Our te
