Monocular Model-Based 3D Location for Autonomous Robots

  • Authors:
  • Antonio Adán;Alberto Martín;Ricardo Chacón;Vicente Dominguez

  • Affiliations:
  • Escuela Superior de Informática, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain 13071;Escuela Superior de Informática, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain 13071;Escuela Superior de Informática, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain 13071;Escuela Superior de Informática, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain 13071

  • Venue:
  • MICAI '08 Proceedings of the 7th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The intelligence degree of a mobile robot is determined taking into account multitude of aspects concerning knowledge of the environment, intelligent decisions and suitable actions. The work presented in this paper focuses on answering an early and key question of an autonomous robot: where am I? We propose a monocular model-based strategy in which the eye of the robot can adapt focal and colour characteristics depending on the location of the robot. Through correspondences between a few points in the world coordinate system and their projections in the image plane of the camera, the method gives the 3D pose of the robot in the room and the location in the building. Our approach is being used for service robot applications inside buildings yielding excellent results. Experimentation, advantages and restriction of this technique are shown in the paper.