Navigation of Mobile Robots in Natural Environments: Using Sensor Fusion in Forestry
Navigation using GPS is a common strategy which cannot provide the desired accuracy in forests. In the forestry of North Rhine- Westphalia (Germany) algorithms are developed to delineate single trees from remote sensing data. These generated tree maps can be used to create a virtual testbed. Differe...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics
2010-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics |
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| Online Access: | http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/GT118XD.pdf
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| Summary: | Navigation using GPS is a common strategy which cannot provide the desired accuracy in forests. In the forestry of North Rhine- Westphalia (Germany) algorithms are developed to delineate single trees from remote sensing data. These generated tree maps can be used to create a virtual testbed. Different kinds of sensor data can be merged to form a "visual GPS" system which improves accuracy for the navigation of autonomous vehicles in the forest. Algorithms were developed, which provide localization results accurate enough to allow navigation to a single tree. |
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| ISSN: | 1690-4524 |