Title
Online glass confidence map building using laser rangefinder for mobile robots
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Utsunomiya University
Publisher(s)
Robotics Society of Japan
Abstract
Accurate localization and mapping are essential for mobile robots. Using laser rangefinders (LRFs), current state-of-the-art indoor Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) can provide accurate real-time localization and mapping in most environments. An exemption are those where glass is predominant, as LRFs can not properly detect glass due to glass' transparency and reflectiveness. With such buildings becoming more common, this has become an important issue to address. Failure to detect glass causes two problems for SLAM: incorrectly mapping glass as open space; and, lower localization accuracy due to mismatches between measured and expected range data. In this paper, we propose a glass confidence map that correctly maps glass as occupied, as well as the probability of an object to be glass/non-glass. Our approach consists of four steps: (i) map all objects, even potential dynamic obstacles, as occupied, (ii) compute the probability of scanned objects to be glass/non-glass using a neural network, (iii) online map updates by matching scanned objects to probability map, and (iv) filter dynamic obstacles and noise. We validated our approach in an office with large glass areas, achieving more than 95% of glass areas correctly mapped as occupied with less than 5% glass/non-glass classification error.
Start page
1506
End page
1521
Volume
34
Issue
23
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Robótica, Control automático
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85091122635
Source
Advanced Robotics
ISSN of the container
01691864
Sponsor(s)
This work was partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 20K21802, and the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications.
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