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An experiment on squad navigation of human and robots

An experiment on squad navigation of human and robots. IARP/EURON Workshop on Robotics for Risky Interventions and Environmental Surveillance. L. Nomdedeu, J. Sales, E. Cervera, J. Alemany, R. Sebastia, J. Penders, V. Gazi. January 7th-8th, 2008 - Benicàssim (Spain). Overview. Introduction

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An experiment on squad navigation of human and robots

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  1. An experiment on squad navigation of human and robots IARP/EURON Workshop on Robotics for Risky Interventions and Environmental Surveillance L. Nomdedeu, J. Sales, E. Cervera, J. Alemany, R. Sebastia, J. Penders, V. Gazi January 7th-8th, 2008 - Benicàssim (Spain)

  2. Overview • Introduction • System configuration • Implementation • The experiment • Conclusion and future work

  3. Introduction: motivation • Experiment: a set of robots (acting as a swarm) and one person. • The aim of robot-human squad: to explore an indoors area. • Fire-fighters: • no sensing capabilities • no map of the building

  4. Introduction: statement of the problem • Our system must be able to integrate: • Exploration and obstacle avoidance • Following the human and localizing itself • Pose problem: • Tracking the human with the escorts lasers • Providing him with an accelerometer-gyroscope-magnetometer (IMU)

  5. Introduction: related work • Laser range finders: • To find and track humans • Detecting multiple moving objects, multiple humans • Video data: • lack of visibility • Localization, obstacle avoidance, path-planning • Adaptive Monte Carlo Localization Plus • Vector Field Histogram (VFH) • Nearness Diagram (ND)

  6. System configuration: HW setup • Robots: mobile commercial platform Erratic from Videre-design • lasers readings, • encoder data, • sonar data, • imu data

  7. System configuration: HW setup • Fire-fighter: laptop along with an imu sensor

  8. System configuration: SW setup • Laptop will provide the fire-fighter • an estimation of his own pose • a new orientation and velocity to take • Three roles in our human-robot system

  9. System configuration: SW setup • Logical scheme of the system

  10. Implementation: SW architecture • Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) provided by the Player platform.

  11. Implementation: tracking • Human being localization through only the laser rangefinder data (,r): polar coordinates of the fire-fighter centroid : threshold of distance : angle of the reading

  12. Implementation: tracking

  13. Implementation: tracking • Estimated global position and velocity of the fire-fighter: • Relative fire-fighter position and velocity • Robot’s own estimated position and velocity. • Formation rules:

  14. The experiment • Partially tested in simulation • Robots guiding the human through our department • Human: only laptop information • Collision free path • Occlusions along the path

  15. Conclusion and future work • We have validated the use of mobile platforms in hazardous environments as a support for human beings • More robustness can be implemented: • Supporting more unstructured environments • Improving system reliability • Improving pose fusion and prediction • Online SLAM approach • Full Human Augmented Mapping (HAM) system

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