Thanks to everyone who joined us for the November meetup! A huge thank you to Tree Thunk for sponsoring the event—we really appreciate the support. Another big thank you to Codeweavers for hosting and supporting the meetup—their continued generosity makes these sessions possible.
Talk
Algorithms for autonomous machines
Sam Wane — Senior Lecturer, Harper Adams University
Machines that work in the real world need to adapt to the ever changing and unpredictable environment.
They sense these changes through sensors and make changes using motors. This is a continuous feedback loop of sense-think-act, continuous small changes are what enables machines to operate in the real world.
For example, an autonomous car driving on a straight road will need to continuously adjust the steering wheel to keep it on a true course.
This talk, peppered with demonstrations, will explore how these feedback loops operate and will demonstrate some algorithms to enable machines to work in the real world: such as planning a route to a location, how a drone autopilot allows it to maintain a fixed height and location regardless of wind patterns, and how mobile robots find their way around.
Thanks, Ian Knight, for photographing the event for us.
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