Let us share with you a cool project moving their stack over to Copper. From their own words:

We are the Utah Student Robotics Club at the University of Utah, and each year we design and build a lunar berm building and excavation robot to compete in NASA’s Lunabotics competition — which we were proud to win this past May!

Our robot took a full year to design and build and for next year’s challenge, we’re building on that success with a similar overall design, upgraded hardware and electronics, and a shift in the software stack: adopting the Copper framework.

The software team’s primary goal this next year is focusing on improving autonomy by making use of smarter localization methods using LIDAR and other sensing technologies.

With the goal of more robust autonomy comes challenges involving fusing sensor outputs from multiple sources like apriltags, LIDAR cameras, IMUS, and wheel rotary encoders to increase the accuracy of the world map and robot pose.

By switching to Copper I hope to leverage the determinism and re-simulation on data from real sensors and logs to be able to more easily tackle autonomy at next year's competition!

Here is a little video of their trial run of a Copper pipeline running using a Unitree L2 implementing KISS-ICP. The visualizer is rerun.

Thank you so much to Matthew Ashton Knochel for sharing his progress with the project and if you need more info about the it, feel free to contact them directly!

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