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http://dx.doi.org/10.5302/J.ICROS.2007.13.5.434

Map-Building and Position Estimation based on Multi-Sensor Fusion for Mobile Robot Navigation in an Unknown Environment  

Jin, Tae-Seok (동서대학교 메카트로닉스공학과)
Lee, Min-Jung (동서대학교 RIC센터)
Lee, Jang-Myung (부산대학교 전자공학과)
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Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems / v.13, no.5, 2007 , pp. 434-443 More about this Journal
Abstract
Presently, the exploration of an unknown environment is an important task for thee new generation of mobile service robots and mobile robots are navigated by means of a number of methods, using navigating systems such as the sonar-sensing system or the visual-sensing system. To fully utilize the strengths of both the sonar and visual sensing systems. This paper presents a technique for localization of a mobile robot using fusion data of multi-ultrasonic sensors and vision system. The mobile robot is designed for operating in a well-structured environment that can be represented by planes, edges, comers and cylinders in the view of structural features. In the case of ultrasonic sensors, these features have the range information in the form of the arc of a circle that is generally named as RCD(Region of Constant Depth). Localization is the continual provision of a knowledge of position which is deduced from it's a priori position estimation. The environment of a robot is modeled into a two dimensional grid map. we defines a vision-based environment recognition, phisically-based sonar sensor model and employs an extended Kalman filter to estimate position of the robot. The performance and simplicity of the approach is demonstrated with the results produced by sets of experiments using a mobile robot.
Keywords
mobile robot; localization; ultrasonic sensor; vision; navigation;
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