Title
Utilizing the Structure of Field Lines for Efficient Soccer Robot Localization
Abstract
The rules in RoboCup soccer more and more discourage a solely colorbased orientation on the soccer field.While the field size increases, field boundary markers and goals become smaller and less colorful. For robust game play, robots therefore need to maintain a state and rely on more subtle environmental clues. Field lines are particularly interesting, because they are hardly completely occluded and observing them significantly reduces the number of possible poses on the field. In this work we present a method for line-based localization. Unlike previous work, our method first recovers a line structure graph from the image. From the graph we can then easily derive features such as lines and corners. Finally, we describe optimizations for efficient use of the derived features in a particle filter. The method described in this paper is used regularly on our humanoid soccer robots.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-20217-9_34
Advanced Robotics
Keywords
Field
DocType
line structure graph,colorbased orientation,soccer field,field boundary marker,humanoid soccer robot,robocup soccer,efficient soccer robot localization,field line,derive feature,field size increase,previous work,particle filter
Graph,Computer vision,Self localization,Field line,Artificial intelligence,Probabilistic logic,Engineering,Robot,Soccer robot,Perception
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
26
14
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.52
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hannes Schulz15510.82
Weichao Liu240.52
Jörg Stückler362446.80
Sven Behnke41672181.84