Robotic autonomous exploration SLAM using combination of Kinect and laser scanner
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Sun, Xudong; Sun, Fuchun; Wang, Bin; Yin, Jianqin; Sheng, Xiaolin; Xiao, Qinghua
- Source
- 2017 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI) Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI), 2017 IEEE International Conference on. :632-637 Nov, 2017
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Robotics and Control Systems
Lasers
Simultaneous localization and mapping
Sorting
Sun
- Language
Frontier-based exploration is the most common approach to exploration, a fundamental problem in robotics. Laser scanner and Kinect have been widely used in robotic application for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) separately. The paper proposes a method to combine the data from Kinect and laser scanner to perform a Frontier-based exploration SLAM. The 2 sensors will be installed facing forward and facing backward in opposite directions which make robot have wider vision, thus the robot can detect more complex surrounding features to increase the exploration efficiency and to construct a more accurate map of the unknown environment.