Title
The autonomous city explorer project
Abstract
This video presents the Autonomous City Explorer (ACE) project. Its goal was to create a robot capable of navigating unknown urban environments without the use of GPS data or prior map knowledge. The robot had to find its way solely by interacting with pedestrians and building a topological representation of its surroundings. This video outlines the necessary ingredients for successful low-level navigation on sidewalks, information retrieval from pedestrians as well as the construction of a semantic representation of an urban environment. A system architecture for outdoor localization, traversability assessment, path planning, behavior selection and topological abstraction in urban environments is presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152460
ICRA
Keywords
Field
DocType
system architecture,videoconference,navigation,global positioning system,path planning,automation,mobile communication,information retrieval,mobile robots,human robot interaction
Motion planning,Automation,Global Positioning System,Systems architecture,Engineering,Robot,Videoconferencing,Multimedia,Mobile robot,Human–robot interaction
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2009
1
1050-4729
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.48
9
Authors
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrea Maria Bauer11297.88
Klaas Klasing21568.35
Tingting Xu31239.59
Stefan Sosnowski416012.94
Georgios Lidoris51047.62
Quirin Mühlbauer6694.91
Tianguang Zhang7747.37
Florian Rohrmuller8977.40
Dirk Wollherr967360.01
Kolja Kühnlenz1043040.87
Martin Buss111799159.02