Moving object detection with laser scanners - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Moving object detection with laser scanners

Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 17 - 43, 2013

Abstract

The detection and tracking of moving objects is an essential task in robotics. The CMU-RI Navlab group has developed such a system that uses a laser scanner as its primary sensor. We will describe our algorithm and its use in several applications. Our system worked successfully on indoor and outdoor platforms and with several different kinds and configurations of two-dimensional and three-dimensional laser scanners. The applications vary from collision warning systems, people classification, observing human tracks, and input to a dynamic planner. Several of these systems were evaluated in live field tests and shown to be robust and reliable.

Notes
Article first published online: 3 JUL 2012

BibTeX

@article{Mertz-2013-7652,
author = {Christoph Mertz and Luis Ernesto Navarro-Serment and David Duggins and Jay Gowdy and Robert MacLachlan and Paul Rybski and Aaron Steinfeld and Arne Suppe and Christopher Urmson and Nicolas Vandapel and Martial Hebert and Chuck Thorpe},
title = {Moving object detection with laser scanners},
journal = {Journal of Field Robotics},
year = {2013},
month = {January},
volume = {30},
number = {1},
pages = {17 - 43},
keywords = {laser scanner, detection and tracking, moving objects},
}