Title
Driving with tentacles: Integral structures for sensing and motion
Abstract
In this paper we describe a LIDAR-based navigation approach applied at both the C-Elrob (European Land Robot Trial) 2007 and the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. At the C-Elrob 2007 the approach was used without any prior knowledge about the terrain and without global positioning system (GPS). At the Urban Challenge the approach was combined with a GPS-based path follower. At the core of the method is a set of “tentacles” that represent precalculated trajectories defined in the ego-centered coordinate space of the vehicle. Similar to an insect's antennae or feelers, they fan out with different curvatures discretizing the basic driving options of the vehicle. We detail how the approach can be used for exploration of unknown environments and how it can be extended to combined GPS path following and obstacle avoidance allowing safe road following in case of GPS offsets. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1002/rob.v25:9
The DARPA Urban Challenge
Keywords
DocType
Volume
LIDAR-based navigation approach,GPS offset,combined GPS path,DARPA Urban Challenge,GPS-based path follower,Urban Challenge,European Land Robot Trial,Wiley Periodicals,basic driving option,different curvature,integral structure
Journal
25
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
1556-4959
31
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.51
9
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Felix Von Hundelshausen116915.13
Michael Himmelsbach21118.33
Falk Hecker3333.33
André Müller4312.51
Hans-Joachim Wuensche58819.09