Navigation of an autonomous sewer inspection robot based on stereo camera images and laser scanner data

Alireza Ahrary; Li Tian; Sei Ichiro Kamata; Masumi Ishikawa

doi:10.1142/S0218213007003461

Navigation of an autonomous sewer inspection robot based on stereo camera images and laser scanner data

Alireza Ahrary^*, Li Tian, Sei Ichiro Kamata, Masumi Ishikawa

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Abstract

Sewer environment is composed of cylindrical pipes, in which only a few landmarks such as manholes, inlets and pipe joints are available for localization. This paper presents a method for navigation of an autonomous sewer inspection robot in a sewer pipe system based on detection of landmarks. In this method, location of an autonomous sewer inspection robot in the sewer pipe system is estimated from stereo camera images. The laser scanner data are also used to ensure accurate localization of the landmarks and reduce the error in distance estimation by image processing. The method is implemented and evaluated in a sewer pipe test field using a prototype robot, demonstrating its effectiveness.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	611-625
Number of pages	15
Journal	International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools
Volume	16
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218213007003461
Publication status	Published - 2007 Aug

Keywords

Autonomous
Laser scanner
Robot navigation
Sewer inspection
Sewer pipe system
Stereo matching

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Artificial Intelligence

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