A Dynamic Swarm for Visual Location Tracking

  • Authors:
  • Marcel Kronfeld;Christian Weiss;Andreas Zell

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany;Computer Science Department, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany;Computer Science Department, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ANTS '08 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The visual localization problem in robotics poses a dynamically changing environment due to the movement of the robot compared to a static image set serving as environmental map. We develop a particle swarm method adapted to this task and apply elements from dynamic optimization research. We show that our algorithm is able to outperform a Particle Filter, which is a standard localization approach in robotics, in a scenario of two visual outdoor datasets, being computationally more effective and delivering a better localization result.