3D Modeling of Rubble: Disaster City, Rubble Pile 1, 17 Nov 2011

During the annual National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) response robot evaluation exercise held in November 2011 on the grounds of Texas A&M University at their Disaster City facility, a series of flights of the Ryerson University NCART lab Hex-rotor UAV were conducted carrying a Microsoft Kinect sensor body slung below the air frame.

We have constructed a 3D model of the flight path including entry ways and rubble features which can yield exact dimensions from the model. The model was formed from over 20 million data points collected in less than 15 minutes of actual flight. The data was collected in real time and processed in near real time.

We also scanned the tunnels under the rubble but some of the details of the entry shafts can be seen in this model taken from the air.

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• kinect
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