Enhancing sensor capabilities of walking robots through cooperative exploration with aerial robots

• Autorzy: Heppner G. , Roennau A. , Dillman .
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Mobile robots can be used to support humans in many applications ranging from simple process automation to complex autonomous inspection tasks. While walking robots are perfectly suited to cross rough terrain, they are not able to detect everything in their environment as certain areas might be occluded or too far away. This paper presents a method of enhancing the sensor capabili- ties of the walking robot LAURON IVc with the use of the lightweight aerial robot ARDrone. A simple method for localization of the ready to use UAV is presented using only color tags and the motor encoders of LAURON. The combination of these two robot types enhances the sensor range of LAURON greatly, while the ARDrone gains localiza tion information from LAURON that acts as a base station.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

walking robot; aerial robot; Lauron; cooperative exploration; low cost sensors; UAV; ARDrone

• Wydawca: Łukasiewicz Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP
• Czasopismo: Journal of Automation Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems
• Rocznik: 2013
• Tom: Vol. 7, No. 2
• Strony: 5--11
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 15 poz., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Heppner G.

• FZI - Research Center for Information Technology, department IDS - Interactive Diagnosis- and Service Systems, Haid-und-Neue-Str. 10-14, Karlsruhe, Germany

autor

Roennau A.

• FZI, IDS

autor

Dillman .

• FZI, IDS

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