Ground plane segmentation for mobile robot visual navigation

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Abstract

We describe a method of mobile robot monocular visual navigation, which uses multiple visual cues to detect and segment the ground plane in the robot's field of view. Corner points are tracked through an image sequence and grouped into coplanar regions using a method which we call an H-based tracker. The H-based tracker employs planar homographys and is initialised by 5-point planar projective invariants. This allows us to detect ground plane patches and the colour within such patches is subsequently modelled. These patches are gown by colour classification to give a ground plane segmentation, which is then used as an input to a new variant of the artificial potential field algorithm.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIROS 2001: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2001 IEEE/RJS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS, VOLS 1-4
Place of PublicationNEW YORK
PublisherIEEE
Pages1513-1518
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)0-7803-6612-3
Publication statusPublished - 2001
EventIEEE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2001) - MAUI
Duration: 29 Oct 20013 Nov 2001

Conference

ConferenceIEEE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2001)
CityMAUI
Period29/10/013/11/01

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