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Indexed by:会议论文

Date of Publication:2014-01-01

Included Journals:CPCI-S

Page Number:928-933

Key Words:road detection; unstructured road describing; laser-vision data fusion; RANSAC spline fitting; field robotics

Abstract:This paper investigates real-time road detection for an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) to navigate in a campus environment. A novel vision system with two monocular cameras at different heights and angles is utilized to accomplish both road region detection and direction estimation tasks simultaneously. An Adaboost-based classifier is used in the road region detection in order to handle the road surface's diversity, and a vanishing point tracking technique is used to estimate the road direction. To describe the unstructured road spaces with an accurate model, a RANSAC Spline Fitting algorithm is adopted to delineate the road borders based on the data fusion results from vision and lasers. Extensive experiments are carried out by using a real UGV platform in a campus environment and results show the feasibility and performance of the proposed approach.