Title
Scaling Local Control to Large-Scale Topological Navigation
Abstract
Visual topological navigation has been revitalized recently thanks to the advancement of deep learning that substantially improves robot perception. However, the scalability and reliability issue remain challenging due to the complexity and ambiguity of real world images and mechanical constraints of real robots. We present an intuitive approach to show that by accurately measuring the capability of a local controller, large-scale visual topological navigation can be achieved while being scalable and robust. Our approach achieves state-of-the-art results in trajectory following and planning in large-scale environments. It also generalizes well to real robots and new environments without retraining or finetuning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196644
2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
deep learning,robot perception,reliability issue,world images,mechanical constraints,local controller,large-scale visual topological navigation,large-scale environments,local control,large-scale topological navigation
Conference
2020
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
1
1050-4729
978-1-7281-7396-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiangyun Meng1133.71
Nathan D. Ratliff283450.98
Yu Xiang362923.04
Dieter Fox4123061289.74