D. Hähnel, D. Schulz, W. Burgard

Map Building with Mobile Robots in Populated Environments

In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2002.







Abstract

The problem of generating maps with mobile robots has received considerable attention over the past years. However, most of the approaches focus on the problem of generating mostly consistent maps and assume that the environment is static during the data-acquisition phase. In this paper we consider the problem of creating maps with mobile robots in populated environments. Our approach uses a probabilistic approach to tracking multiple people and to incorporate the estimated positions of the people into the mapping process. The resulting maps are more accurate since corrupted readings treated accordingly during the matching phase and since the number of artificial objects in the resulting maps is reduced. Our approach has been implemented and tested on real robot systems in indoor and outdoor scenarios. We present several experiments illustrating the capabilities of our approach to generate accurate 2d and 3d maps.


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@InProceedings{Haehnel02Map,
  author    = {H{\"a}hnel, D. and Schulz, D. and Burgard, W.},
  title     = {Map Building with Mobile Robots in Populated Environments},
  booktitle = {Proc.~of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year      = {2002},
}