Title
An Approach to Improve Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Human Populated Environments
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
One task that autonomous mobile robots have to perform in indoor spaces is to construct the map of their environment and report their location and orientation. This process is called Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). To do so, robots extract data through their sensors. However, in dynamic indoor environments, moving objects induce the SLAM process to collapse or diverge. Moving objects should not be taken into account to generate the map and the occlusions that they generate should be solved. In this work, we propose a robust and flexible approach for SLAM algorithms to perform better in human populated environments; by integrating a filtering scheme that manages moving and static objects. To illustrate the suitability of our approach, we implement Gmapping, as the classical SLAM algorithm, and RANSAC as the filter. Nevertheless, any other SLAM algorithm and filter can be implemented. The simulation tests have been carried out using three museum environments, which the robot can face in real life. Through the results obtained, it is possible to conclude that the proposed approach is efficient in managing the sensor data, filtering the outliers, and thus removing dynamic objects from the map.
Start page
240
End page
245
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Robótica, Control automático
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85123493875
Resource of which it is part
2021 Latin American Robotics Symposium, 2021 Brazilian Symposium on Robotics, and 2021 Workshop on Robotics in Education, LARS-SBR-WRE 2021
ISBN of the container
9781665407618
Conference
2021 Latin American Robotics Symposium, 2021 Brazilian Symposium on Robotics, and 2021 Workshop on Robotics in Education, LARS-SBR-WRE 2021
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by FONDO NACIONAL DE DESARROLLO CIENTIFICO, TECNOLOGICOY DE INNOVACION TECNOLOGICA - FONDECYT as executing entity of CONCYTEC under grant agreement no. 01-2019-FONDECYT-BM-INC.INV in the project RUTAS: Robots for Urban Tourist centers Autonomous and Semantic based.
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