Title
Glass confidence maps building based on neural networks using laser range-finders for mobile robots
Date Issued
01 February 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Jiang J.
Yamashita A.
Asama H.
University of Tokyo
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a method to classify glass and non-glass objects and build glass confidence maps for indoor mobile robots using laser range-finders (LRFs). The glass confidence map is aimed to improve robot localization systems' robustness and accuracy in glass environments. For most LRF-based localization systems, objects are assumed to be detectable from all incident angles, which is true for non-reflective and non-Transparent objects, like walls. However, glass can only be detected by LRFs in certain incident angles. This glass detection failure decreases robots' localization accuracy. Exhibiting glass' position in the map and taking its detection failure into consideration can increase the localization accuracy. We propose the usage of a neural network to classify glass and non-glass objects, with LRF's measured intensity, distance and incident angles as inputs. We verified our method experimentally, and experimental results show that our method can successfully distinguish glass from non-glass objects and accurately construct a glass confidence map with high confidence.
Start page
405
End page
410
Volume
2018-January
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Robótica, Control automático
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85050881250
ISBN
9781538622636
Conference
SII 2017 - 2017 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration
Sponsor(s)
Funding text This work was partly funded by Tough Robotics Challenge, ImPACT Program of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (Cabinet Office, Government of Japan).
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