Publication

Efficient use of 3d environment models for mobile robot simulation and localization

Conference Article

Conference

International Conference on Simulation, Modelling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR)

Edition

2nd

Pages

461-472

Doc link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17319-6_42

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Abstract

This paper provides a detailed description of a set of algorithms to efficiently manipulate 3D geometric models to compute physical constraints and range observation models, data that is usually required in real-time mobile robotics or simulation. Our approach uses a standard file format to describe the environment and processes the model using the openGL library, a widely-used programming interface for 3D scene manipulation. The paper also presents results on a test model for benchmarking, and on a model of a real urban environment, where the algorithms have been effectively used for real-time localization in a large urban setting.

Categories

mobile robots, robot programming.

Author keywords

3D environment models, observation models, mobile robot, 3D localization, simulation, openGL

Scientific reference

A. Corominas Murtra, E. Trulls Fortuny, J. M. Mirats Tur and A. Sanfeliu. Efficient use of 3d environment models for mobile robot simulation and localization, 2nd International Conference on Simulation, Modelling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots, 2010, Darmstadt, Germany, in Simulation, Modelling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots, Vol 6472 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 461-472, 2010, Springer, Berlin.