Intelligent Robot Vision System Research Center (Localization technology development Team)

1. Purpose of project.
Developing self-localization technology for mobile surveillance robot.

To track and follow people or objects, mobile robot should have self-localization and self-driving related algorithms. In this research, we propose a sensor-fusion based self-localization system that can be applied to intelligence robots on outside conditions. In outdoors, usually vision based localization approach suffer from many obstacles; abrupt luminance changes, ambiguous scene images and motion blur (Fig 1, 2).

< Fig 1. Abrupt Illumination changes >

< Fig 2. limitations of vision based approach - ambiguous scene images and motion blur >

To solve this problem, the sensor-fusion system proposed. The system composed of LRF (Laser Range Finder), multiple cameras and DGPS (Differential Global Positioning System) can be applied to position estimation process. Therefore, even in the bad weather or night condition, the robot can estimate its location correctly.

2. Self-localization techniques.
We have been developed several techniques to achieve our goal. (Fig 3, 4, 5)

< Fig 3. Stereo camera based real-time localization technique >

< Fig 4. Single camera based localization algorithm >

< Fig 5. Camera-Laser fusion system for estimating location >