Least-Squares Estimation of Transformation Parameters Between Two Point Patterns
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Estimating 3-D rigid body transformations: a comparison of four major algorithms
Machine Vision and Applications - Special issue on performance evaluation
Robot Motion Planning
Rao-Blackwellised Particle Filtering for Dynamic Bayesian Networks
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Providing the basis for human-robot-interaction: a multi-modal attention system for a mobile robot
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Multimodal interfaces
Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots
Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots
Systemic interaction analysis (SInA) in HRI
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
Real-time plane segmentation using RGB-D cameras
Robot Soccer World Cup XV
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Navigation and obstacle avoidance in robotics using planar laser scans has matured over the last decades. They basically enable robots to penetrate highly dynamic and populated spaces, such as people's home, and move around smoothly. However, in an unconstrained environment the two-dimensional perceptual space of a fixed mounted laser is not sufficient to ensure safe navigation. In this paper, we present an approach that pools a fast and reliable motion generation approach with modern 3D capturing techniques using a Time-of-Flight camera. Instead of attempting to implement full 3D motion control, which is computationally more expensive and simply not needed for the targeted scenario of a domestic robot, we introduce a "virtual laser". For the originally solely laserbased motion generation the technique of fusing real laser measurements and 3D point clouds into a continuous data stream is 100% compatible and transparent. The paper covers the general concept, the necessary extrinsic calibration of two very different types of sensors, and exemplarily illustrates the benefit which is to avoid obstacles not being perceivable in the original laser scan.