Traversable Region Estimation for Mobile Robots in an Outdoor Image

• Published in: Journal of intelligent & robotic systems Vol. 92; no. 3-4; pp. 453 - 463
• Main Authors: Matsuzaki, Sango, Yamazaki, Kimitoshi, Hara, Yoshitaka, Tsubouchi, Takashi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.12.2018; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Artificial Intelligence; Categories; Color imagery; Control; Electrical Engineering; Engineering; Feasibility studies; Human subjects; Lasers; Mechanical Engineering; Mechatronics; Roads & highways; Robotics; Robots; Traversable region estimation; Learning; Manually-instructed paths; Mobile robot

This paper describes a novel method to estimate appropriate traversable regions from an outdoor scene image. The traversable regions output by the proposed method reflect the common sense of people. For example, a candidate traversable region is “a paved road somewhat distant from the side ditch.” T...