Title
Visual navigation of communicating vehicles in unknown and changing environment
Abstract
This paper describes the design and testing of a system to enable large scale cooperative navigation of autonomous vehicles moving on a priori unknown routes in changing environments. A large-scale learning-mapping approach and a replay-localization method are combined to achieve cooperative navigation. The mapping approach is based on a proposed hierarchical/hybrid BiCam SLAM approach-global level and local maps-, which will be generalized to be executed on multiple vehicles moving as a convoy. A global 3D map maintains the relationships between a series of local submaps built by the first vehicle of the convoy (leader), defining a path that all other vehicles (followers) must stay on. Only single camera setups are considered. The overall approach is evaluated with real data acquired in an urban environment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ICECS.2011.6122364
Electronics, Circuits and Systems
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
SLAM (robots),learning (artificial intelligence),autonomous vehicle navigation,changing environment,hierarchical BiCam SLAM approach,hybrid BiCam SLAM approach,unknown environment,vehicle communication,visual navigation
Conference
978-1-4577-1844-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David A. Marquez-Gamez100.34
Michel Devy254271.47