Ford Campus vision and lidar data set

  • Authors:
  • Gaurav Pandey;James R Mcbride;Ryan M Eustice

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA;Ford Motor Company Research, Dearborn, MI, USA;University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Robotics Research
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper we describe a data set collected by an autonomous ground vehicle testbed, based upon a modified Ford F-250 pickup truck. The vehicle is outfitted with a professional (Applanix POS-LV) and consumer (Xsens MTi-G) inertial measurement unit, a Velodyne three-dimensional lidar scanner, two push-broom forward-looking Riegl lidars, and a Point Grey Ladybug3 omnidirectional camera system. Here we present the time-registered data from these sensors mounted on the vehicle, collected while driving the vehicle around the Ford Research Campus and downtown Dearborn, MI, during November-December 2009. The vehicle path trajectory in these data sets contains several large- and small-scale loop closures, which should be useful for testing various state-of-the-art computer vision and simultaneous localization and mapping algorithms.