Title:

OS12-4 Improvement of Robot's Self-localization by Using Observer View Positional Information

Publication: ICAROB2017
Volume: 22
Pages: 662-665
ISSN: 2188-7829
DOI: 10.5954/ICAROB.2017.OS12-4
Author(s): Yo Aizawa, Takuo Suzuki, Kunikazu Kobayashi
Publication Date: January 19, 2017
Keywords: Self-localization, Perspective image, Image processing, Homography, RoboCup
Abstract: This study aimed to improve the precision of the robot's self-localization in the standard platform league of RoboCup, i.e. a robotic soccer competition. For improving the precision of the self-localization, we suggest a new technique that uses a camera out of the field for assistance. Robots in the field use the unscented particle filter that estimates their position from landmark. When a robot which is equipped with the filter cannot recognize landmarks exactly, particles spread and the precision of the self-localization decreases. Therefore, the overlooking camera out of the field observes each robot's position. When particles spread, the camera out of the field estimates the foot of a robot, and then the robot sprinkles particles on the neighborhood again. In this way, even if a robot cannot recognize landmarks exactly, assists of camera out of the field revise the position of particles and improve the precision.
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