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2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

DOI: 10.1109/icra.2013.6631003

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Avoiding moving obstacles during visual navigation

Proceedings article published in 2013 by Andrea Cherubini ORCID, Boris Grechanichenko, Fabien Spindler, Francois Chaumette
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Abstract

Moving obstacle avoidance is a fundamental re-quirement for any robot operating in real environments, where pedestrians, bicycles and cars are present. In this work, we design and validate a new approach that takes explicitly into account obstacle velocities, to achieve safe visual navigation in outdoor scenarios. A wheeled vehicle, equipped with an actuated pinhole camera and with a lidar, must follow a path represented by key images, without colliding with the obstacles. To estimate the obstacle velocities, we design a Kalman-based observer. Then, we adapt the tentacles designed in [1], to take into account the predicted obstacle positions. Finally, we validate our approach in a series of simulated and real experiments, showing that when the obstacle velocities are considered, the robot behaviour is safer, smoother, and faster than when it is not.