A Semantic-Based Gas Source Localization with a Mobile Robot Combining Vision and Chemical Sensing
This paper addresses the localization of a gas emission source within a real-world human environment with a mobile robot. Our approach is based on an efficient and coherent system that fuses different sensor modalities (i.e., vision and chemical sensing) to exploit, for the first time, the semantic...
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doaj-020404c37dd2441cb3fd0c43fe29c9862020-11-24T20:56:59ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202018-11-011812417410.3390/s18124174s18124174A Semantic-Based Gas Source Localization with a Mobile Robot Combining Vision and Chemical SensingJavier Monroy0Jose-Raul Ruiz-Sarmiento1Francisco-Angel Moreno2Francisco Melendez-Fernandez3Cipriano Galindo4Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez5Machine Perception and Intelligent Robotics group (MAPIR), Department of System Engineering and Automation, Biomedical Research Institute of Malaga (IBIMA), University of Malaga, 29071 Málaga, SpainMachine Perception and Intelligent Robotics group (MAPIR), Department of System Engineering and Automation, Biomedical Research Institute of Malaga (IBIMA), University of Malaga, 29071 Málaga, SpainMachine Perception and Intelligent Robotics group (MAPIR), Department of System Engineering and Automation, Biomedical Research Institute of Malaga (IBIMA), University of Malaga, 29071 Málaga, SpainMachine Perception and Intelligent Robotics group (MAPIR), Department of System Engineering and Automation, Biomedical Research Institute of Malaga (IBIMA), University of Malaga, 29071 Málaga, SpainMachine Perception and Intelligent Robotics group (MAPIR), Department of System Engineering and Automation, Biomedical Research Institute of Malaga (IBIMA), University of Malaga, 29071 Málaga, SpainMachine Perception and Intelligent Robotics group (MAPIR), Department of System Engineering and Automation, Biomedical Research Institute of Malaga (IBIMA), University of Malaga, 29071 Málaga, SpainThis paper addresses the localization of a gas emission source within a real-world human environment with a mobile robot. Our approach is based on an efficient and coherent system that fuses different sensor modalities (i.e., vision and chemical sensing) to exploit, for the first time, the semantic relationships among the detected gases and the objects visually recognized in the environment. This novel approach allows the robot to focus the search on a finite set of potential gas source candidates (dynamically updated as the robot operates), while accounting for the non-negligible uncertainties in the object recognition and gas classification tasks involved in the process. This approach is particularly interesting for structured indoor environments containing multiple obstacles and objects, enabling the inference of the relations between objects and between objects and gases. A probabilistic Bayesian framework is proposed to handle all these uncertainties and semantic relations, providing an ordered list of candidates to be the source. This candidate list is updated dynamically upon new sensor measurements to account for objects not previously considered in the search process. The exploitation of such probabilities together with information such as the locations of the objects, or the time needed to validate whether a given candidate is truly releasing gases, is delegated to a path planning algorithm based on Markov decision processes to minimize the search time. The system was tested in an office-like scenario, both with simulated and real experiments, to enable the comparison of different path planning strategies and to validate its efficiency under real-world conditions.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/12/4174e-noseelectronic nosegas sensormobile robotgas source localizationsemanticsuncertaintysensor fusionobject recognitionMDPMarkov decision processgas classificationBayesuncertainty propagationMobile Robot Olfactionchemical sensorsArtificial IntelligenceMachine Learning |
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Javier Monroy Jose-Raul Ruiz-Sarmiento Francisco-Angel Moreno Francisco Melendez-Fernandez Cipriano Galindo Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez A Semantic-Based Gas Source Localization with a Mobile Robot Combining Vision and Chemical Sensing Sensors e-nose electronic nose gas sensor mobile robot gas source localization semantics uncertainty sensor fusion object recognition MDP Markov decision process gas classification Bayes uncertainty propagation Mobile Robot Olfaction chemical sensors Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning |
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Javier Monroy Jose-Raul Ruiz-Sarmiento Francisco-Angel Moreno Francisco Melendez-Fernandez Cipriano Galindo Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez |
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Javier Monroy |
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A Semantic-Based Gas Source Localization with a Mobile Robot Combining Vision and Chemical Sensing |
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A Semantic-Based Gas Source Localization with a Mobile Robot Combining Vision and Chemical Sensing |
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A Semantic-Based Gas Source Localization with a Mobile Robot Combining Vision and Chemical Sensing |
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A Semantic-Based Gas Source Localization with a Mobile Robot Combining Vision and Chemical Sensing |
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A Semantic-Based Gas Source Localization with a Mobile Robot Combining Vision and Chemical Sensing |
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semantic-based gas source localization with a mobile robot combining vision and chemical sensing |
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Sensors |
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1424-8220 |
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2018-11-01 |
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This paper addresses the localization of a gas emission source within a real-world human environment with a mobile robot. Our approach is based on an efficient and coherent system that fuses different sensor modalities (i.e., vision and chemical sensing) to exploit, for the first time, the semantic relationships among the detected gases and the objects visually recognized in the environment. This novel approach allows the robot to focus the search on a finite set of potential gas source candidates (dynamically updated as the robot operates), while accounting for the non-negligible uncertainties in the object recognition and gas classification tasks involved in the process. This approach is particularly interesting for structured indoor environments containing multiple obstacles and objects, enabling the inference of the relations between objects and between objects and gases. A probabilistic Bayesian framework is proposed to handle all these uncertainties and semantic relations, providing an ordered list of candidates to be the source. This candidate list is updated dynamically upon new sensor measurements to account for objects not previously considered in the search process. The exploitation of such probabilities together with information such as the locations of the objects, or the time needed to validate whether a given candidate is truly releasing gases, is delegated to a path planning algorithm based on Markov decision processes to minimize the search time. The system was tested in an office-like scenario, both with simulated and real experiments, to enable the comparison of different path planning strategies and to validate its efficiency under real-world conditions. |
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e-nose electronic nose gas sensor mobile robot gas source localization semantics uncertainty sensor fusion object recognition MDP Markov decision process gas classification Bayes uncertainty propagation Mobile Robot Olfaction chemical sensors Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning |
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