Proactive 3D robot mapping in environments with sparse features

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Abstract

3D map building can aid robots to accomplish high-level tasks. Using an inexpensive RGB-D camera, a 3D map can be built by estimating the camera pose using visual features. However, the mapping will easily fail if there lack a sufficient number of features. In this paper, a proactive 3D mapping framework is proposed using a mobile robot platform equipped with an RGB-D camera and a projector. Both the camera and the projector are mounted on pan-tilt units controlled by servo motors. With the motion of the camera pan-tilt unit and the movement of the robot, a binary hypothesis testing problem is modeled to evaluate the estimation accuracy of the camera pose. A pattern is generated by the projector to increase the number of features when the pose estimation has large errors based on the real-time evaluation. The experimental results show that the proposed approach improves the mapping performance in an indoor environment with sparse features.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Visual Computing - 10th International Symposium, ISVC 2014, Proceedings
EditorsGeorge Bebis, Richard Boyle, Bahram Parvin, Darko Koracin, Ryan McMahan, Jason Jerald, Hui Zhang, Steven M. Drucker, Kambhamettu Chandra, El Choubassi Maha, Zhigang Deng, Mark Carlson
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages773-782
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9783319142487
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2014 - Las Vegas, United States
Duration: 8 Dec 201410 Dec 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8887
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas
Period8/12/1410/12/14

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