Terrain segmentation and roughness estimation using rgb data: Path planning application on the centauro robot

V Suryamurthy, VS Raghavan… - 2019 IEEE-RAS 19th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
2019 IEEE-RAS 19th International Conference on Humanoid Robots …, 2019ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robots operating in real world environments require a high-level perceptual understanding
of the chief physical properties of the terrain they are traversing. In unknown environments,
roughness is one such important terrain property that could play a key role in devising robot
control/planning strategies. In this paper, we present a fast method for predicting pixel-wise
labels of terrain (stone, sand, road/sidewalk, wood, grass, metal) and roughness estimation,
using a single RGB-based deep neural network. Real world RGB images are used to …
Robots operating in real world environments require a high-level perceptual understanding of the chief physical properties of the terrain they are traversing. In unknown environments, roughness is one such important terrain property that could play a key role in devising robot control/planning strategies. In this paper, we present a fast method for predicting pixel-wise labels of terrain (stone, sand, road/sidewalk, wood, grass, metal) and roughness estimation, using a single RGB-based deep neural network. Real world RGB images are used to experimentally validate the presented approach. Furthermore, we demonstrate an application of our proposed method on the centaur-like wheeled-legged robot CENTAURO, by integrating it with a navigation planner that is capable of re-configuring the leg joints to modify the robot footprint polygon for stability purposes or for safe traversal among obstacles.
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