Presentation 2023-08-25
Self-localization method by visual odometry of road surface sensing for outdoor mobile inspection robots
Toya Kaneko, Yoshikazu Ebina, Takuya Kosakai, Masato Mizukami, Shoji Mochizuki,
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Abstract(in English) Most public infrastructure equipment in use today was built during a period of high economic growth and is rapidly aging. However, inspection workers have been decreasing and tools for inspecting buried infrastructure (e.g., handheld ground-penetrating radar) require a great amount of labor and time. Thus, autonomous mobile robots are required to improve efficiency and labor costs. High self-position estimation accuracy is required for autonomous movement and for specifying a position by comparing the coordinates of objects buried underground with information from a ground-penetrating radar. For the self-localization using the image of road surface, we described the result that inspection examined by an experiment about the influence that the road surface image state that we acquired with RGB-D camera gives in estimated precision.
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Keyword(in English) Mobile robot / Self-localization / Image sensor / RGB-D camera
Paper # R2023-33,EMD2023-28,CPM2023-38,OPE2023-77,LQE2023-24
Date of Issue 2023-08-17 (R, EMD, CPM, OPE, LQE)

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Committee LQE / OPE / CPM / EMD / R
Conference Date 2023/8/24(2days)
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Place (in English) Tohoku university
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Topics (in English) Photodetectors, Modulators, Optical Electrical device packaging and reliability
Chair Kosuke Nishimura(KDDI Research) / Taro Arakawa(Yokohama National Univ.) / Hideki Nakazawa(Hirosaki Univ.) / Takahiro Ueno(Nippon Inst. of Tech.) / Yasushi Kadota(Ricoh)
Vice Chair Atsushi Yamaguchi(Kanazawa Inst. of Tech.) / / Tomoaki Terasako(Ehime Univ.) / / Hiroyuki Okamura(Hiroshima Univ.)
Secretary Atsushi Yamaguchi(Fujitsu) / (Yokohama National Univ.) / Tomoaki Terasako(Kanto Gakuin Univ.) / (NTT) / Hiroyuki Okamura(Shinshu Univ.)
Assistant Keita Mochiduki(Yokohama National Univ.) / Takshi Fujisawa(Hokaido Univ.) / Hideyuki Nasu(Furukawa Electric) / Yasuo Kimura(Tokyo Univ. of Tech.) / Fumihiko Hirose(Yamagata Univ.) / Yuichi Nakamura(Toyohashi Univ. of Tech.) / Yoshiki Kayano(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Naoki Fukuda(Teikyo Univ.) / Shinji Yokogawa(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Takahide Yoshikawa(Fujitsu Lab.) / Shuhei Ota(Kanagawa Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Lasers and Quantum Electronics / Technical Committee on OptoElectronics / Technical Committee on Component Parts and Materials / Technical Committee on Electromechanical Devices / Technical Committee on Reliability
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Self-localization method by visual odometry of road surface sensing for outdoor mobile inspection robots
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Mobile robot
Keyword(2) Self-localization
Keyword(3) Image sensor
Keyword(4) RGB-D camera
1st Author's Name Toya Kaneko
1st Author's Affiliation Muroran Institute of Technology(Muroran Inst. of Tech.)
2nd Author's Name Yoshikazu Ebina
2nd Author's Affiliation Muroran Institute of Technology(Muroran Inst. of Tech.)
3rd Author's Name Takuya Kosakai
3rd Author's Affiliation Muroran Institute of Technology(Muroran Inst. of Tech.)
4th Author's Name Masato Mizukami
4th Author's Affiliation Muroran Institute of Technology(Muroran Inst. of Tech.)
5th Author's Name Shoji Mochizuki
5th Author's Affiliation Nipppon Telegtraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)
Date 2023-08-25
Paper # R2023-33,EMD2023-28,CPM2023-38,OPE2023-77,LQE2023-24
Volume (vol) vol.123
Number (no) R-158,EMD-159,CPM-160,OPE-161,LQE-162
Page pp.pp.83-88(R), pp.83-88(EMD), pp.83-88(CPM), pp.83-88(OPE), pp.83-88(LQE),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2023-08-17 (R, EMD, CPM, OPE, LQE)