Title :
Towards exact localization without explicit localization with the generalized Voronoi graph
Author :
Nagatani, Keiji ; Choset, Howie ; Thrun, Sebastian
Author_Institution :
Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
Sensor based exploration is a task which enables a robot to explore and map an unknown environment, using sensor information. The map used in this paper is the generalized Voronoi graph (GVG). The robot explores an unknown environment using an already developed incremental construction procedure to generate the GVG using sensor information. This paper presents some initial results which uses the GVG for robot localization, while mitigating the need to update encoder values. Experimental results verify the described work
Keywords :
computational geometry; mobile robots; path planning; topology; exact localization; generalized Voronoi graph; incremental construction procedure; sensor based exploration; Computational geometry; Global Positioning System; Mobile robots; Orbital robotics; Path planning; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Space exploration; Wheels;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Automation, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Leuven
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4300-X
DOI :
10.1109/ROBOT.1998.676421