Stereo vision local map alignment for robot environment mapping

  • Authors:
  • David Aldavert;Ricardo Toledo

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Vision Centre, Dept. Ciències de la Computació Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain;Computer Vision Centre, Dept. Ciències de la Computació Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

  • Venue:
  • RobVis'08 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Robot vision
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Finding correspondences between sensor measurements obtained at different places is a fundamental task for an autonomous mobile robot. Most matching methods search correspondences between salient features extracted from such measurements. However, finding explicit matches between features is a challenging and expensive task. In this paper we build a local map using a stereo head aided by sonars and propose a method for aligning local maps without searching explicit correspondences between primitives. From objects found by the stereo head, an object probability density distribution is built. Then, the Gauss-Newton algorithm is used to match correspondences, so that, no explicit correspondences are needed.