Title
Probabilistic self-localisation on a qualitative map based on occlusions.
Abstract
Spatial knowledge plays an essential role in human reasoning, permitting tasks such as locating objects in the world (including oneself), reasoning about everyday actions and describing perceptual information. This is also the case in the field of mobile robotics, where one of the most basic (and essential) tasks is the autonomous determination of the pose of a robot with respect to a map, given its perception of the environment. This is the problem of robot self-localisation (or simply the localisation problem). This paper presents a probabilistic algorithm for robot self-localisation that is based on a topological map constructed from the observation of spatial occlusion. Distinct locations on the map are defined by means of a classical formalism for qualitative spatial reasoning, whose base definitions are closer to the human categorisation of space than traditional, numerical, localisation procedures. The approach herein proposed was systematically evaluated through experiments using a mobile robot equipped with a RGB-D sensor. The results obtained show that the localisation algorithm is successful in locating the robot in qualitatively distinct regions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1080/0952813X.2015.1132265
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL & THEORETICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Qualitative spatial reasoning,Markov localisation,perception of occlusion
Computer vision,Spatial intelligence,Computer science,Topological map,Artificial intelligence,Formalism (philosophy),Probabilistic logic,Robot,Machine learning,Mobile robot,Robotics,Qualitative reasoning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28.0
SP5
0952-813X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.38
17
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paulo E. Santos113120.29
Murilo Fernandes Martins2192.48
Valquiria Fenelon3142.15
Fábio Cozman41810.16
Hannah M. Dee516117.56