Title
Natural terrain classification using three-dimensional ladar data for ground robot mobility
Abstract
In recent years, much progress has been made in outdoor autonomous navigation. However, safe navigation is still a daunting challenge in terrain containing vegetation. In this paper, we focus on the segmentation of ladar data into three classes using local three-dimensional point cloud statistics. The classes are: "scatter" to represent porous volumes such as grass and tree canopy; "linear" to capture thin objects like wires or tree branches, and finally "surface" to capture solid objects like ground surface, rocks, or large trunks. We present the details of the proposed method, and the modifications we made to implement it on-board an autonomous ground vehicle for real-time data processing. Finally, we present results produced from different stationary laser sensors and from field tests using an unmanned ground vehicle. (C) 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1002/rob.20134
JOURNAL OF FIELD ROBOTICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
spatial statistics,three dimensional,real time data,semantic interpretation,natural environment,point cloud,real time,connected component
Data processing,Terrain,Remote sensing,Lidar,Artificial intelligence,Tree canopy,Computer vision,Simulation,Segmentation,Unmanned ground vehicle,Engineering,Robot,Point cloud
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
10
1556-4959
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
85
4.68
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jean-françois Lalonde159037.69
Nicolas Vandapel247735.19
Daniel F. Huber369946.34
Martial Hebert4112771146.89