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Bayesian Sensor Fusion of Monocular Vision and Laser Structured Light Sensor for Robust Localization of a Mobile Robot

이동 로봇의 강인 위치 추정을 위한 단안 비젼 센서와 레이저 구조광 센서의 베이시안 센서융합

  • 김민영 (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부) ;
  • 안상태 (국방과학연구소) ;
  • 조형석 (한국과학기술원 기계공학과)
  • Received : 2009.06.09
  • Accepted : 2010.01.10
  • Published : 2010.04.01
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Abstract

This paper describes a procedure of the map-based localization for mobile robots by using a sensor fusion technique in structured environments. A combination of various sensors with different characteristics and limited sensibility has advantages in view of complementariness and cooperation to obtain better information on the environment. In this paper, for robust self-localization of a mobile robot with a monocular camera and a laser structured light sensor, environment information acquired from two sensors is combined and fused by a Bayesian sensor fusion technique based on the probabilistic reliability function of each sensor predefined through experiments. For the self-localization using the monocular vision, the robot utilizes image features consisting of vertical edge lines from input camera images, and they are used as natural landmark points in self-localization process. However, in case of using the laser structured light sensor, it utilizes geometrical features composed of corners and planes as natural landmark shapes during this process, which are extracted from range data at a constant height from the navigation floor. Although only each feature group of them is sometimes useful to localize mobile robots, all features from the two sensors are simultaneously used and fused in term of information for reliable localization under various environment conditions. To verify the advantage of using multi-sensor fusion, a series of experiments are performed, and experimental results are discussed in detail.

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