Title :
Laser reflection intensity and multi-layered Laser Range Finders for people detection
Author :
Carballo, Alexander ; Ohya, Akihisa ; Yuta, Shin´ichi
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Syst. & Inf. Eng., Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract :
Successful detection of people is a basic requirement for a robot to achieve symbiosis in people´s daily life. Specifically, a mobile robot designed to follow people needs to keep track of people´s position through time, for it defines the robot´s position and trajectory.
Keywords :
calibration; laser ranging; learning (artificial intelligence); mobile robots; object detection; LRF; calibration method; intensity-based feature extraction; laser reflection intensity; multilayered laser range finder; people detection; social autonomous mobile robot; supervised learning; Feature extraction; Laser beams; Lasers; Mobile robots; Robot sensing systems;
Conference_Titel :
RO-MAN, 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Viareggio
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7991-7
DOI :
10.1109/ROMAN.2010.5598657
