Outdoor mapping using mobile robots / Mapeamento de ambientes externos utilizando robôs móveis
AUTOR(ES)
Alberto Yukinobu Hata
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2010
RESUMO
Autonomous mobile robotics is a recent research area that focus on the construction of mechanisms capable of executing tasks without a human control. In general, mobile robotics deals with three fundamental problems: environment mapping, robot localization and navigation. Without these elements, the robot hardly could move autonomously from a place to another. One problem of this area is the operation of the mobile robots in outdoors (e.g. parks and urban areas), which are considerably more complex than indoor environments (e.g. offices and houses). To exemplify, in outdoor environments, sensors are subjected to weather conditions (sunlight, rain and snow), besides that the navigation algorithms must process a larger quantity of obstacles (people, animals and vegetation). This dissertation presents the development of a system that classifies the navigability of irregular terrains, like streets and sidewalks. The scenario mapping has been done using a robotic platform equipped with a laser range finder sensor directed to the ground. Two terrain mapping algorithms has been devolped. One for environment fine details visualization, generating a point cloud map, and other to visualize appropriated and unappropriated places to robot navigation, resulting in a navigability map. In this map, it was used supervised learning machine methods to classify terrain portions in navigable (plane regions), partially navigable (grass, gravel) or non-navigable (obstacles). The classification methods employed were artificial neural networks and support vector machines. The classification results obtained by both were later compared to determine the most appropriated technique to execute this task
ASSUNTO(S)
robôs móveis mapeamento mapping sensor laser máquina de suporte vetorial mobile robots artificial neural networks redes neurais artificiais support vector machines laser range finder
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