Title
Visual topological SLAM and global localization
Abstract
Visual localization and mapping for mobile robots has been achieved with a large variety of methods. Among them, topological navigation using vision has the advantage of offering a scalable representation, and of relying on a common and affordable sensor. In previous work, we developed such an incremental and real-time topological mapping and localization solution, without using any metrical information, and by relying on a Bayesian visual loop-closure detection algorithm. In this paper, we propose an extension of this work by integrating metrical information from robot odometry in the topological map, so as to obtain a globally consistent environment model. Also, we demonstrate the performance of our system on the global localization task, where the robot has to determine its position in a map acquired beforehand.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152501
ICRA
Keywords
Field
DocType
visual topological,mobile robot,real-time topological mapping,metrical information,localization solution,global localization task,topological navigation,previous work,visual localization,bayesian visual loop-closure detection,topological map,dictionaries,bayesian methods,simultaneous localization and mapping,mobile robots,visualization,navigation,machine vision,real time
Computer vision,Topology,Visualization,Odometry,Topological map,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Simultaneous localization and mapping,Mathematics,Mobile robot,Bayesian probability,Scalability
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2009
1
1050-4729
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
33
1.07
21
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adrien Angeli129111.87
Stéphane Doncieux275139.71
Jean-Arcady Meyer3870102.62
David Filliat464647.26