Neural network-based landmark detection for mobile robot

Minoru Sekiguchi; Hiroyuki Okada; Nobuo Watanabe

doi:10.1117/12.235913

22 March 1996 Neural network-based landmark detection for mobile robot

Minoru Sekiguchi, Hiroyuki Okada, Nobuo Watanabe

Proceedings Volume 2760, Applications and Science of Artificial Neural Networks II; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.235913
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls, 1996, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The mobile robot can essentially have only the relative position data for the real world. However, there are many cases that the robot has to know where it is located. In those cases, the useful method is to detect landmarks in the real world and adjust its position using detected landmarks. In this point of view, it is essential to develop a mobile robot that can accomplish the path plan successfully using natural or artificial landmarks. However, artificial landmarks are often difficult to construct and natural landmarks are very complicated to detect. In this paper, the method of acquiring landmarks by using the sensor data from the mobile robot necessary for planning the path is described. The landmark we discuss here is the natural one and is composed of the compression of sensor data from the robot. The sensor data is compressed and memorized by using five layered neural network that is called a sand glass model. The input and output data that neural network should learn is the sensor data of the robot that are exactly the same. Using the intermediate output data of the network, a compressed data is obtained, which expresses a landmark data. If the sensor data is ambiguous or enormous, it is easy to detect the landmark because the data is compressed and classified by the neural network. Using the backward three layers, the compressed landmark data is expanded to original data at some level. The studied neural network categorizes the detected sensor data to the known landmark.

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Minoru Sekiguchi, Hiroyuki Okada, and Nobuo Watanabe "Neural network-based landmark detection for mobile robot", Proc. SPIE 2760, Applications and Science of Artificial Neural Networks II, (22 March 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.235913

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