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2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

DOI: 10.1109/iros.2012.6385640

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The role of homing in visual topological navigation

Proceedings article published in 2012 by Ming Liu ORCID, Cédric Pradalier, François Pomerleau, Roland Yves Siegwart
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Abstract

Visual homing has been widely studied in the past decade. It enables a mobile robot to move to a Home position using only information extracted from visual data. However, integration of homing algorithms into real applications is not widely studied and poses a number of significant challenges. Failures often occur due to moving people within the scene and variations in illumination. We present a novel integrated indoor topological navigation framework, which combines odometry motion with visual homing algorithms. We show robustness to scene variation and real-time performance through a series of tests conducted in four real apartments and several typical indoor scenes, including doorways, offices etc.