TULSA, Okla. — Anthony Armour, a recent graduate of Tulsa’s Holberton School, has been working on a fun and unique project.
Carl and Lewis is a four-wheeled semi-autonomous robot that’s equipped with an intelligent voice assistant.
“It was a lot of fun. It all started with one of the projects we had in machine learning, learning about hidden mark off models which is a statistic model,” said Armour.
Carl and Lewis is able to detect objects in front of it and track objects as well. AI voice assist allows the user to speak to give commands. It also answers basic questions, similar to Apple’s Siri.
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“User interface allows you to see in real time, live video feed from the robot’s perspective. It gets all of the sensor data from the laser ranging sensor and gyroscope, so that was a real critical piece just to make it more accessible for the user,” said Armour.
Carl and Lewis has two cameras that sends out video to certain feeds.
Armour explained why Carl and Lewis is so unique.
“Compared to other localization and mapping algorithms, which use high resolution light r scanning and high-resolution frame fusing algorithms that are very compute heavy very resource heavy, an algorithm like this will scale with computer vision algorithms where the more objects you can detect you can use pure computer vision to figure out how far an object is and what’s your angle to that object is and start mapping things in the environment.”