Title
Towards Bringing Robots into Homes.
Abstract
Home robots need to navigate in a partially structure environment and detect objects on the floor and on tables. Navigation is considered solved using laser sensors, however object recognition requires other sensor modalities. The objective of this work is the merging cognitive robot tasks using one sensing modality: stereo vision. Obstacle avoidance and navigation use the detection of free space - the traversable space in front of the robot. Localisation in a home environment is solved by matching the free space to the map, which gives results similar to laser sensors but takes objects at all heights into account. Finally, the approach naturally leads to object detection: attention is placed around the free space region and structure recognition methods can be applied to their advantage. We will show results for all tasks in lab and home settings.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
ISR/ROBOTIK
navigation
Field
DocType
ISBN
Obstacle avoidance,Computer vision,Object detection,Stereo cameras,Computer science,Stereopsis,Artificial intelligence,Mobile robot navigation,Robot,Mobile robot,Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition
Conference
978-3-8007-3273-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
7
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Markus Vincze11343136.87
Walter Wohlkinger21859.83
Sven Olufs3214.67
Peter Einramhof4594.97
Robert Schwarz500.34