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Woburn-based defense technology company Scientific Systems Co. Inc. (SSCI) reports it has landed $750,000 from the U.S. Air Force to develop open-source software for testing navigation sensors and algorithms used by military robots.
Under the Small Business Innovation Research grant, SSCI will develop a modular software platform to test the sensors and algorithms. According to SSCI, the Air Force is looking for new precision navigation technologies to augment GPS, with a focus on visual odometry. To that end, SSCI plans to develop a testbed to assess multiple combinations of sensor hardware, visual navigation algorithms and vehicle dynamic models on a level playing field.
The University of Central Florida’s Computer Vision Laboratory will provide egomotion algorithms for initial testing.
The project is being developed as open-source to encourage adoption by sensor manufacturers, SSCI said.
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