Thursday, August 14, 2014

Robots see through walls using the Wi-Fi

Robots see through walls using the Wi-Fi

Robots created by a team of researchers from the University of California at Santa Barbara can see through walls and detect objects that are behind using only a Wi-Fi signal. This technology opens the way to many applications from rescue missions to building security through detection and archeology.

Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara have developed what they call a "system of X-ray vision", which does not work at all in the X but uses radio waves Wi-Fi network. These two robots can identify hidden by the metal barrel concrete enclosure.  They alternate transmission and reception of Wi-Fi signal which they analyze changes to determine the position but also the composition of objects.  In this image, the red zone materializes perimeter that robots do not know (unknown volume).  © UC Santa Barbara

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Imagine robotic vehicles before arriving thick walls in concrete . They have no knowledge of what is behind, yet they are able to see through and detect any object they mask, all through a simple signal Wi-Fi . This technology, known as  X-ray vision for robots with WiFi only , has been developed and patented by a team of researchers from the University of California at Santa Barbara. It allows, despite a partition, to identify the objects, their positions, their geometry and also to determine whether it is a human, an object of metal or wood . By itself, the technique is not new. A method of imaging radio had already been shown in 2009.

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