Title
Incremental Learning of Traversability Cost for Aerial Reconnaissance Support to Ground Units.
Abstract
In this paper, we address traversability cost estimation using exteroceptive and proprioceptive data collected by a team of aerial and ground vehicles. The main idea of the proposed approach is to estimate the terrain traversability cost based on the real experience of the multi-legged walking robot with traversing different terrain types. We propose to combine visual features with the real measured traversability cost based on proprioceptive signals of the utilized hexapod walking robot as a ground unit. The estimated traversability cost is augmented by extracted visual features from the onboard robot camera, and the features are utilized to extrapolate the learned traversability model for an aerial scan of new environments to assess their traversability cost. The extrapolated traversability cost can be utilized in the high-level mission planning to avoid areas that are difficult to traverse but not visited by the ground units. The proposed approach has been experimentally verified with a real hexapod walking robot in indoor and outdoor scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-3-030-14984-0_30
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer vision,Computer science,Incremental learning,Terrain,Cost estimate,Ground vehicles,Artificial intelligence,Aerial reconnaissance,Robot,Hexapod,Traverse
Conference
11472
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Milos Prágr101.35
Petr Čížek2195.95
Jan Faigl333642.34