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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Perception-aware Path Planning
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Gabriele Costante
  • Christian Forster
  • Jeffrey Delmerico
  • Paolo Valigi
  • Davide Scaramuzza
Language
  • English
Institution Cornell University
Series Name ArXiv.org
Number 1605.04151
ISSN 2331-8422
Number of Pages 16
Date 2016
Abstract Text In this paper, we give a double twist to the problem of planning under uncertainty. State-of-the-art planners seek to minimize the localization uncertainty by only considering the geometric structure of the scene. In this paper, we argue that motion planning for vision-controlled robots should be perception aware in that the robot should also favor texture-rich areas to minimize the localization uncertainty during a goal-reaching task. Thus, we describe how to optimally incorporate the photometric information (i.e., texture) of the scene, in addition to the the geometric one, to compute the uncertainty of vision-based localization during path planning. To avoid the caveats of feature-based localization systems (i.e., dependence on feature type and user-defined thresholds), we use dense, direct methods. This allows us to compute the localization uncertainty directly from the intensity values of every pixel in the image. We also describe how to compute trajectories online, considering also scenarios with no prior knowledge about the map. The proposed framework is general and can easily be adapted to different robotic platforms and scenarios. The effectiveness of our approach is demonstrated with extensive experiments in both simulated and real-world environments using a vision-controlled micro aerial vehicle.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.48550/arXiv.1605.04151
Other Identification Number merlin-id:13341
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