Title
Robust Map Registration for Building Online Glass Confidence Maps
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Jiang J.
Yamashita A.
Asama H.
Utsunomiya University
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Laser rangefinders (LRFs) are widely used in mobile robot localization. However, glass, which is common in indoor environments, can only be detected by LRFs in limited incident angles, instead of all incident angles like other objects. As common representations of the environments do not consider this property, glass can negatively influence the robot's localization accuracy by causing a mismatch between measurements and the map even when locations are correct. A solution to this problem is to build a glass confidence map, which shows the probability of each object in the environment to be glass. If glass confidence maps want to be built online, it is important to consider pose uncertainty. Pose uncertainty can cause incorrect registration of glass probabilities, i.e., the incorrect grid is assigned the computed glass probability. In this work, we propose a robust registration method that explicitly considers pose uncertainty. The proposed method is verified experimentally, and results show that glass confidence maps can be built online successfully and with high accuracy.
Start page
136
End page
141
Volume
52
Issue
8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Sistemas de automatización, Sistemas de control Ingeniería mecánica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85076257704
Source
IFAC-PapersOnLine
ISSN of the container
24058963
Conference
10th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, IAV 2019
Sponsor(s)
This work was partly funded by The Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications.
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