Robust localization algorithms for an autonomous campus tour guide
- 13 November 2002
- proceedings article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Vol. 2, 2065-2071
- https://doi.org/10.1109/robot.2001.932911
Abstract
This paper describes a robust localization method for an outdoor robot that gives tours of the Rice University cam- pus. The robot fuses odometry and GPS data using ex- tended Kalman filtering. We propose and experimentally test a technique for handling two types of non-stationarity in GPS data quality: abrupt changes in GPS position read- ings caused by sudden obstructions to line of sight access to satellites, and more gradual changes caused by disparities in atmospheric conditions. We construct measurement er- ror covariance matrices indexed by number of visible satel- lites and switch them into the localization computation au- tomatically. The matrices are built by sampling GPS data repeatedly along the route and are updated continuously to handle drift in GPS data quality. We demonstrate that our approach performs better than extended Kalman filters that use only a single error covariance matrix. With a GPS re- ceiver that delivers 1 meter accuracy, we have been able to localize good to 40 cm through a challenging route in the Engineering Quadrangle of Rice University.Keywords
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