Journal Article

·2020

3D Mapping and Simultaneous Navigation for Multi Micro Aerial Vehicles in Indoor Environments

Mustafa Burak Dilaver YTU , Furkan Çakmak YTU , Erkan Uslu YTU , Mehmet Fatih Amasyalı YTU , Sırma Yavuz YTU

Abstract

One of the platforms that autonomous exploration applications can be used is micro aerial vehicles, which are used by robotic scientists, because of their high dynamic capabilities. A robot needs to do navigation in its surrounding environment to be able to do exploration. In outdoor and indoor environments with obstacles around, sensing an environment and creating its map to do navigation is a common practice in robotic studies. An aerial vehicle is able to reach to a target position without crashing into static and dynamic obstacles, with the help of costmaps created in navigation applications. To prevent an aerial vehicle, which is trying to find a path to a target position, from getting crashed into other vehicles in applications with multiple aerial vehicles, that aerial vehicle needs to take into account the paths that found by other vehicles. In this way it's possible to prevent aerial vehicles getting crashed into each other. In this work, a simultaneous navigation application is developed for aerial vehicles that can build concurrent 3D multi maps. Experiments have been done in Gazebo simulation environment of ROS framework.

Keywords

Computer science Robot Simultaneous localization and mapping Real-time computing Position (finance) Mobile robot Mobile robot navigation Artificial intelligence Computer vision Simulation Robot control

Subject Areas

Robotic Path Planning Algorithms ·Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ·Physical Sciences
Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization ·Aerospace Engineering ·Physical Sciences
Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety ·Automotive Engineering ·Physical Sciences