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标题：Building semantic grid maps for domestic robot navigation
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作者：Xianyu Qi ; Wei Wang ; Mei Yuan 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
印刷版ISSN：1729-8806
电子版ISSN：1729-8814
出版年度：2020
卷号：17
期号：1
页码：1-12
DOI：10.1177/1729881419900066
出版社：SAGE Publications
摘要：This article proposes a semantic grid mapping method for domestic robot navigation. Occupancy grid maps are sufficient for mobile robots to complete point-to-point navigation tasks in 2-D small-scale environments. However, when used in the real domestic scene, grid maps are lack of semantic information for end users to specify navigation tasks conveniently. Semantic grid maps, enhancing the occupancy grid map with the semantics of objects and rooms, endowing the robots with the capacity of robust navigation skills and human-friendly operation modes, are thus proposed to overcome this limitation. In our method, an object semantic grid map is built with low-cost sonar and binocular stereovision sensors by correctly fusing the occupancy grid map and object point clouds. Topological spaces of each object are defined to make robots autonomously select navigation destinations. Based on the domestic common sense of the relationship between rooms and objects, topological segmentation is used to get room semantics. Our method is evaluated in a real homelike environment, and the results show that the generated map is at a satisfactory precision and feasible for a domestic mobile robot to complete navigation tasks commanded in natural language with a high success rate.
关键词：Occupancy grid map; semantic grid map; domestic robot navigation; sonar sensors; stereovision
其他关键词：Occupancy grid map ; semantic grid map ; domestic robot navigation ; sonar sensors ; stereovision