Affiliation:
1. Institute for Mechatronics Engineering and Cyber-Physical Systems, Universidad de Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain
Abstract
Moving on paths or trails present in natural environments makes autonomous navigation of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) simpler and safer. In this sense, aerial photographs provide a lot of information of wide areas that can be employed to detect paths for UGV usage. This paper proposes the extraction of paths from a geo-referenced satellite image centered at the current UGV position. Its pixels are individually classified as being part of a path or not using a convolutional neural network (CNN) which has been trained using synthetic data. Then, successive distant waypoints inside the detected paths are generated to achieve a given goal. This processing has been successfully tested on the Andabata mobile robot, which follows the list of waypoints in a reactive way based on a three-dimensional (3D) light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Control and Optimization,Mechanical Engineering,Computer Science (miscellaneous),Control and Systems Engineering
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