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Effective Method for Autonomous Simultaneous Localization and Map Building in Unknown Indoor Environments 511 F σ is defined as FreeSpaceCoverRadius. SΔ σ is defined as 100mm (designed by human experience). V σ is defined as 200mm/s (predefined maximum translation velocity). VΔ σ is defined as 20mm/s (designed by human experience). The sampling time for the proposed autonomous exploration strategy is 1s in all the following experiments. 4.1 Experiments with a real robot In the first experiment, the system was tested in a long corridor with 1.5m widths. The objective of this experiment was to verify the performance when a mobile robot navigated along a corridor. Therefore, the minimum range value of the left and right side group sensors are plotted against time and it is shown in Figure 8a. In Figure 8a) and b), shows that the Pioneer 2DX mobile robot navigated along towards the middle of corridor with a smooth trajectory. Left & Right sensor readings vs time 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Time(s) sensor readings (mm) left sensor right sensor a) Left and Right wall distance measured by the left and right sonar. b) Snap shots of a Pioneer 2DX navigating along a corridor. Fig. 8. The performance of the proposed HFFS reactive navigation system while navigates along a corridor. 512 Mobile Robots, Perception & Navigation In the second experiment, the proposed reactive navigation system was used to control a Pioneer 2DX navigating in a more complex area where is located at the outside of our research laboratory in the university. Figure 9 shows the robot’s information and the robot trajectory during navigation. At starting of the navigation (low bottom left in Figure 9b), the mobile robot traveled along a corridor. Then the mobile robot turned to right side when the robot’s front sensor detected an obstacle (at time 70s, see Figure 9a). 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Effective Method for Autonomous Simultaneous Localization and Map Building in Unknown Indoor Environments 513 From the above two experiments, it can be demonstrated that the proposed HFFS reactive navigation system can achieve the goal of multi-behavior (such as: navigate along a corridor and at corner, keep off and parallel to wall and avoid obstacle) mobile robot controller. In the next experiment, the complete autonomous exploration strategy is applied to control a mobile robot for navigating in an unknown environment via robot simulator. 4.2 Experiment with a robot simulator In this experiment, the EAFC segment-based map building algorithm [15] was adopted to extract the map information from raw sonar data. This map building algorithm is the authors’ pervious work [17]. Other than that algorithm, we can also apply fuzzy sonar maps [13] (which was proposed by Gasos and Martin 1996) or Hough transform with sonar arc (which was proposed by Tardos et. al. 2002) for extracting a segment- based map. For the parameters setting in autonomous exploration strategy, it was selected as follow: “FreeSpaceCoverRadius” = 2500mm and “MinNavTravelDis” = 800mm. The advantage for using a robot simulator to verify our proposed autonomous exploration strategy is that the localization error can be disabled or neglected. Since the localization problem will arise an error or affect the accuracy in the planning process. The Pioneer Simulator [42] can simulate several different types of typical noise that occur during robot navigation and sensor perception. To achieve the goal of this experiment, the percentage of encoder jitter, angle jitter and angle drift in robot simulator is reduced to zero. Nevertheless, the sonar sensor uncertainty is still occurring in the system. Figure 10 shows the navigation point-marks and the unexplored direction at each Cd_NP superposed on the actual map when the Pioneer 2DX navigates in the simulation world. We can see that the mobile robot can navigate in all regions in the unknown environment. Also, the navigation point-marks are distributed unevenly in the navigation environment. The raw sonar data and extracted map by EAFC during the autonomous navigation are shown in Figure 11 a) and b), respectively. 4.3 Autonomous SLAM experiment In this experiment, the autonomous exploration strategy was combined with the SLAM algorithm [19] to form an effective SLAM algorithm. Basically, this effective SLAM algorithm is similar to the algorithm that was tested in section 4.2 except the map information (for aiming the navigation point generation system) is replaced by the SLAM map. An overview of the system architecture is shown in Figure 12. Since this was a real- time experiment, it was difficult to obtain a ground truth robot trajectory. Therefore, we used the authors’ previous proposed fuzzy tuned extended Kalman filter FT-EKF model- based localization algorithm [18] to measure the robot trajectory during the autonomous SLAM process for comparison. The system was tested in our research office (8 × 8 m) and the floor plan The total trajectory of the mobile robot was around 30m, lasting around 20 minutes The sampling rate of SLAM process and autonomous exploration strategy was 1000ms. 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Robot trajectory, navigation point-marks, extracted map, raw data and real map captured from the robot software Saphira. 516 Mobile Robots, Perception & Navigation Mobile robot body SLAM process Autonomous exploration Acquired environmnet model (segments and navigation points) motion control unit (wheel velocity) Odometric information sonar sensors return Robot perception w i r e l e s s l i n k Physical planform (in Pioneer 2DX) w i re l e s s l i nk Software implementation (in Saphira) w i r e l e s s l i n k Fig. 12. Overall architecture of the proposed autonomous SLAM mechanism. At the start of the experiment, the Pioneer 2DX was placed at end of the corridor (shown in lower left corner in Figure 13a). After all the given directions at each navigation point were navigated, the mobile robot traveled back to the starting position. The final global map acquired at end of the experiment is shown in Figure 13b. In addition, 25 line features and 16 navigation points were extracted in the final map and the final absolute position error in X and Y is 50mm and 64mm (measured by hand and relative to actual position), respectively. For comparison purposes, the odometric wake, the SLAM wake, extracted navigation points and map model are superimposed on the hand measured map model. a) Sonar returns, navigation points and autonomous SLAM estimated wake obtained during the experiment. (Captured from the robot software “Saphira”.) The range threshold of all sonar sensors is 1500mm. Therefore, a lot of ambiguous and noise measurements were filtered. Effective Method for Autonomous Simultaneous Localization and Map Building in Unknown Indoor Environments 517 Odometric wake SLAM wake Navigation point Actual map (hand-drift) SLAM map 2 m 2 m b) Extracted map model and navigation points superposed on the real map. Fig. 13. Robot trajectory, navigation point-marks, extracted map, raw data and real map during the autonomous SLAM experiment. To further analyze the consistency of our integrated approach, Figure 14 shows a comparison between the error in the autonomous SLAM pose versus model-based FT-EKF robot pose along with the 2-sigma (2 σ) uncertainty bounds logged from the SLAM process. It is clearly demonstrated that those errors remain inside their 2 σ uncertainly bounds at the most of time. From this on-line integrated experiment, we conclude that this approach can fulfill the three essential missions of mobile robot and those are operated in real time and simultaneously. Figure 15 shows snap shots captured from the robot software “Saphira”, during the experiment. 518 Mobile Robots, Perception & Navigation 5. Conclusions In this chapter, a new autonomous exploration strategy for mobile robot was presented and extensively tested via simulation and experimental trials. The essential mechanisms used included a HFFS reactive navigation scheme, EAFC map extraction algorithm, SLAM process, an open space evaluation system cooperating with probability theory and Bayesian update rule and a novel navigation point generation system. The proposed autonomous exploration algorithm is a version of combination of a robust reactive navigation scheme and approaching the unknown strategy which ensure that the mobile robot to explore the entire region in an unknown environment automatically. X-error -0.5 0 0.5 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 Time(s) Error(m) Y-error -0.5 -0.3 -0.1 0.1 0.3 0.5 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 Time(s) Error(m) Angular error -20 0 20 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 Tim e ( s) Fi Fig. 14. Estimated errors in robot location during the autonomous SLAM process with sonar. (Gray lines represent two-sigma (2 σ) uncertainly bounds.) Effective Method for Autonomous Simultaneous Localization and Map Building in Unknown Indoor Environments 519 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) Fig. 15. Snap shots during autonomous SLAM process via Pioneer 2DX mobile robot. (Captured from the robot software “Saphira”.) The black robot (a bit bigger) represents the robot position estimated by odometric. The gray robot represents the robot position estimated by SLAM process. 520 Mobile Robots, Perception & Navigation In addition in this chapter, a metric topological map model is advocated for facilitating the path planning process during the autonomous exploration. Moreover, the map model extracted from an EAFC map building algorithm (metric map model) is aimed to generate the navigation point or node on the navigation path. Therefore, a hybrid map model is proposed for autonomous map building in an unknown indoor environment. An autonomous map building algorithm was tested in a simulation world (section 4.2). On the other hand, a successful on-line autonomous SLAM experiment (section 4.3) was conducted for a mobile robot to map an indoor and unknown environment. Basically, this chapter concluded the pervious work: a SLAM problem solved by overlapping sliding window sonar buffer [Ip and Rad 2003] and EAFC feature initialization technique []Ip and Rad] combined with a novel autonomous exploration strategy to formulate an autonomous SLAM mechanism. Experimental studies demonstrated that the mobile robot was able to build a segment-based map and topological map (a list of navigation points) in real time without human intervention. 6. References 1. Berger, J.O., Statistical Decision Theory and Bayesian Analysis. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Second Edition, 1985. 2. Borenstein, J. and Koren, Y., Obstacle avoidance with ultrasonic sensors, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation 4 (1988) 213–218. 3. 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