A model of autonomous positioning through associating environment memory information is presented for unmanned combat aerial vehicle(UCAV).The representation strategy of environment by constructing place cells is used...A model of autonomous positioning through associating environment memory information is presented for unmanned combat aerial vehicle(UCAV).The representation strategy of environment by constructing place cells is used to produce the memory information,and the landmarks in memory are retrieved through perceiving and processing the environment.During UCAV′s flight,the landmarks are obtained in real-time and are matched with the landmarks in memory.Then,the idea of ranging positioning is adopted to calculate UCAV′s location based on the corresponding relationship between current obtained landmarks and the memorized landmarks.Simulation shows that the proposed model can realize autonomous positioning in the memorized environment,and the positioning performance is well when the sensor has a high precision.展开更多
A novel algorithm for localising a robot in a known two-dimensional environment is presented in this paper. An occupancy grid representing the environment is first converted to a distance function that encodes the dis...A novel algorithm for localising a robot in a known two-dimensional environment is presented in this paper. An occupancy grid representing the environment is first converted to a distance function that encodes the distance to the nearest obstacle from any given location. A Chamfer distance based sensor model to associate observations from a laser ranger finder to the map of the environment without the need for ray tracing, data association, or feature extraction is presented. It is shown that the robot can be localised by solving a non-linear optimisation problem formulated to minimise the Chamfer distance with respect to the robot location. The proposed algorithm is able to perform well even when robot odometry is unavailable and requires only a single tuning parameter to operate even in highly dynamic environments. As such, it is superior than the state-of-the-art particle filter based solutions for robot localisation in occupancy grids, provided that an approximate initial location of the robot is available. Experimental results based on simulated and public domain datasets as well as data collected by the authors are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61273048)
文摘A model of autonomous positioning through associating environment memory information is presented for unmanned combat aerial vehicle(UCAV).The representation strategy of environment by constructing place cells is used to produce the memory information,and the landmarks in memory are retrieved through perceiving and processing the environment.During UCAV′s flight,the landmarks are obtained in real-time and are matched with the landmarks in memory.Then,the idea of ranging positioning is adopted to calculate UCAV′s location based on the corresponding relationship between current obtained landmarks and the memorized landmarks.Simulation shows that the proposed model can realize autonomous positioning in the memorized environment,and the positioning performance is well when the sensor has a high precision.
文摘A novel algorithm for localising a robot in a known two-dimensional environment is presented in this paper. An occupancy grid representing the environment is first converted to a distance function that encodes the distance to the nearest obstacle from any given location. A Chamfer distance based sensor model to associate observations from a laser ranger finder to the map of the environment without the need for ray tracing, data association, or feature extraction is presented. It is shown that the robot can be localised by solving a non-linear optimisation problem formulated to minimise the Chamfer distance with respect to the robot location. The proposed algorithm is able to perform well even when robot odometry is unavailable and requires only a single tuning parameter to operate even in highly dynamic environments. As such, it is superior than the state-of-the-art particle filter based solutions for robot localisation in occupancy grids, provided that an approximate initial location of the robot is available. Experimental results based on simulated and public domain datasets as well as data collected by the authors are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
