Appearance-Based Obstacle Detection with Monocular Color Vision - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Appearance-Based Obstacle Detection with Monocular Color Vision

Iwan Ulrich and Illah Nourbakhsh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 12th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI/IAAI '00), pp. 866 - 871, July, 2000

Abstract

This paper presents a new vision-based obstacle detection method for mobile robots. Each individual image pixel is classified as belonging either to an obstacle or the ground based on its color appearance. The method uses a single passive color camera, performs in real-time, and provides a binary obstacle image at high resolution. The system is easily trained by simply driving the robot through its environment. In the adaptive mode, the system keeps learning the appearance of the ground during operation. The system has been tested successfully in a variety of environments, indoors as well as outdoors.

BibTeX

@conference{Ulrich-2000-16753,
author = {Iwan Ulrich and Illah Nourbakhsh},
title = {Appearance-Based Obstacle Detection with Monocular Color Vision},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 12th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI/IAAI '00)},
year = {2000},
month = {July},
pages = {866 - 871},
}