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JRM Vol.22 No.6 pp. 726-736
doi: 10.20965/jrm.2010.p0726
(2010)

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Self-Supervised Mapping for Road Shape Estimation Using Laser Remission in Urban Environments

Teppei Saitoh and Yoji Kuroda

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Meiji University, 1-1-1 Higashimita, Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 214-8571, Japan

Received:
May 18, 2010
Accepted:
August 12, 2010
Published:
December 20, 2010
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Keywords:
robot maps, reflectivity of laser, road shape estimation, self-supervised learning, structured environments
Abstract
This paper describes the novel road surface analysis estimating road shape using laser scanner reflectivity in structured outdoor environments. The proposed approach can estimate road shape where a robot can drive safely in complex scenes including structures, curbs or low vegetation and so on. Road shapes are estimated robustly by using information of remission value as reflectivity of a laser, which much less depends on brightness of color or ambient lighting than passive camera. Our proposal is applicable to structured outdoor environments using road surface remission value distributions with self-supervised learning. This article shows that the method is successfully verified with road shape estimation at both the testing course of the 2009 Real World Robot Challenge, which is known as “Tsukuba Challenge” including low vegetation and our university campus.
Cite this article as:
T. Saitoh and Y. Kuroda, “Self-Supervised Mapping for Road Shape Estimation Using Laser Remission in Urban Environments,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.22 No.6, pp. 726-736, 2010.
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