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Opportunistic sampling-based active visual SLAM for underwater inspection

Opportunistic sampling-based active visual SLAM for underwater inspection This paper reports on an active SLAM framework for performing large-scale inspections with an underwater robot. We propose a path planning algorithm integrated with visual SLAM that plans loop-closure paths in order to decrease navigation uncertainty. While loop-closing revisit actions bound the robot’s uncertainty, they also lead to redundant area coverage and increased path length. Our proposed opportunistic framework leverages sampling-based techniques and information filtering to plan revisit paths that are coverage efficient. We employ Gaussian process regression for modeling the prediction of camera registrations and use a two-step optimization procedure for selecting revisit actions. We show that the proposed method offers many benefits over existing solutions and good performance for bounding navigation uncertainty in long-term autonomous operations with hybrid simulation experiments and real-world field trials performed by an underwater inspection robot. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Autonomous Robots Springer Journals

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2016 by Springer Science+Business Media New York
Subject
Engineering; Robotics and Automation; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics
ISSN
0929-5593
eISSN
1573-7527
DOI
10.1007/s10514-016-9597-6
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Abstract

This paper reports on an active SLAM framework for performing large-scale inspections with an underwater robot. We propose a path planning algorithm integrated with visual SLAM that plans loop-closure paths in order to decrease navigation uncertainty. While loop-closing revisit actions bound the robot’s uncertainty, they also lead to redundant area coverage and increased path length. Our proposed opportunistic framework leverages sampling-based techniques and information filtering to plan revisit paths that are coverage efficient. We employ Gaussian process regression for modeling the prediction of camera registrations and use a two-step optimization procedure for selecting revisit actions. We show that the proposed method offers many benefits over existing solutions and good performance for bounding navigation uncertainty in long-term autonomous operations with hybrid simulation experiments and real-world field trials performed by an underwater inspection robot.

Journal

Autonomous RobotsSpringer Journals

Published: Jul 26, 2016

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