Level 5

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been trying to get the OAK-D camera up and running with ROS1 Noetic. My goal was to produce a RGB pointcloud from the incoming depth and RGB camera images from the OAK-D. I initially started experimenting with the depthai_ros package made by Rapyuta Robotics... [Read More]

Since the last update, I have been waiting on acrylic parts for the OAK-D camera and the OAK-D itself. The OpenCV AI Kit - Depth (OAK-D) is a spatial-AI camera with a RGB and stereo cameras with on-board mono/stereo inferencing. After a few delays, apparently due to Brexit, the camera... [Read More]

Looking back, 2020 has been a really weird year. I had just started my new job as a consultant, and my first assignment at a client, when the Netherlands went into lockdown. By mid-march, I was completely working from home and was left with a lot of spare time. I... [Read More]

This weekend, I worked on the different driving modes of the Jetbot2. As explained in a previous blog post, the robot is designed to have 3 driving modes - full teleop, semi-autonomous (linear velocity via teleop, angular velocity via the autonomous node) and fully autonomous. Each mode is given a... [Read More]

Although its still my Instagram handle, it was time to move on to a more original name for this blog. So, after a great deal of thought, Kamath’s Blog is now Level 5 - Level 5 (or L5) is the top level of the self-driving automotive standard. A L5 car... [Read More]