Title
Decentralized simultaneous localization and mapping for multiple aerial vehicles using range-only sensors
Abstract
This paper presents an approach for decentralized range-only simultaneous localization and mapping (RO-SLAM) of a network of aerial vehicles and a set of static range-only sensors deployed in the environment. The paper makes use of a multi-hypothesis framework developed by the authors [1] in order to deal with the multiple hypotheses that are present in the early stages of the undelayed RO-SLAM, this paper extends the approach to consider the integration of landmark estimations provided by other aerial vehicles nearby the robot. The method will enable a significant reduction in the convergence time needed to remove wrong localization hypotheses for every range-only landmark and, as a results, a map with improved accuracy. The proposed approach is validated first in simulations and later on with real experiments involving real range-only sensors and two unmanned aerial vehicles.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICRA.2015.7140099
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Keywords
Field
DocType
SLAM (robots),autonomous aerial vehicles,mobile robots,multi-robot systems,robot vision,RO-SLAM,decentralized range-only simultaneous localization and mapping,landmark estimations,multihypothesis framework,multiple aerial vehicles,static range-only sensors,unmanned aerial vehicles
Convergence (routing),Computer vision,Multiple hypotheses,Azimuth,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Simultaneous localization and mapping,Landmark,Robot
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2015
1
1050-4729
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.41
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Felipe R. Fabresse1162.14
Fernando Caballero261045.38
Aníbal Ollero31109123.55