Publication
Action selection for single-camera SLAM
Journal Article (2010)
Journal
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part B
Pages
1567-1581
Volume
40
Number
6
Doc link
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSMCB.2010.2043528
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Abstract
A method for evaluating, at video rate, the quality of actions for a single camera while mapping unknown indoor environments is presented. The strategy maximizes mutual information between measurements and states to help the camera avoid making ill-conditioned measurements that are appropriate to lack of depth in monocular vision systems. Our system prompts a user with the appropriate motion commands during 6-DOF visual simultaneous localization and mapping with a handheld camera. Additionally, the system has been ported to a mobile robotic platform, thus closing the control-estimation loop. To show the viability of the approach, simulations and experiments are presented for the unconstrained motion of a handheld camera and for the motion of a mobile robot with nonholonomic constraints. When combined with a path planner, the technique safely drives to a marked goal while, at the same time, producing an optimal estimated map.
Categories
robots.
Author keywords
action selection, active vision, bearing-only simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), mutual information, path planning
Scientific reference
T. Vidal-Calleja, A. Sanfeliu and J. Andrade-Cetto. Action selection for single-camera SLAM. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part B, 40(6): 1567-1581, 2010.
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