This paper proposes PredictiveSLAM, a novel extension to ORB-SLAM2, which extracts features from specific regions of interest (ROI). The proposed method was designed with the risk posed both to humans and robotic syst...
This paper proposes PredictiveSLAM, a novel extension to ORB-SLAM2, which extracts features from specific regions of interest (ROI). The proposed method was designed with the risk posed both to humans and robotic systems in large-scale industrial sites in mind. The ROI are determined through an object detection network trained to detect moving human beings. The method detects and removes humans from feature extraction, predicting their potential future trajectory. This is done by omitting a specific ROI from extraction, deemed to be occluded in consecutive time steps. Two masking methods -static object and moving object trajectories - are proposed. This approach improves tracking accuracy and the performance of SLAM by removing the dynamic features from the reference for tracking and loop closures. The method is tested on data collected in a laboratory environment and compared against a state-of-the-art ground truth system. The validation data was collected from real-time experiments which aimed at simulating the typical human worker behaviours in industrial environments using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). This study illustrates the advantages of the proposed method over earlier approaches, even with a highly dynamic camera setup on a UAV working in challenging environments.
In this paper, we propose a method to repurpose the multi-user MIMO downlink transmission for joint wireless communication and imaging. The key idea is to introduce the concept of virtual users in the communication co...
In this paper, we propose a method to repurpose the multi-user MIMO downlink transmission for joint wireless communication and imaging. The key idea is to introduce the concept of virtual users in the communication coverage area and use the existing MUMIMO beamforming methods to jointly beamform towards real and virtual users. The virtual users are placed to complement the locations of actual users, with the objective to illuminate the scene as uniformly as possible. We study a single-parameter tradeoff, introduced by a power split parameter between real and virtual users. We demonstrate via simulated examples that the virtual user concept is effective in providing a scalable imaging and communications performance tradeoff for cases where the real users are clustered in small geographical areas.
In this paper, we develop a graph neural network (GNN)-assisted bilinear inference approach to enhance the receiver performance of the MIMO system through message passing-based joint channel estimation and data detect...
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The advent of sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication systems represents a transformative leap in global connectivity, moving from traditional internet of things (IoT) frameworks to an advanced artificial intelli...
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Object detectors have demonstrated vulnerability to adversarial examples crafted by small perturbations that can deceive the object detector. Existing adversarial attacks mainly focus on white-box attacks and are mere...
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In this article, a novel approach for merging 3D point cloud maps in the context of egocentric multi-robot exploration is presented. Unlike traditional methods, the proposed approach leverages state-of-the-art place r...
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We present the results of experiments performed using a team of small autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to determine the location of an isobath. The primary contributions of this work are (1) the development of a ...
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Polarization and wavelength multiplexing are the two most widely employed techniques to improve the capacity in the metasurfaces. Existing works have pushed each technique to its individual limits. For example, the po...
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Active learning strategies for 3D object detection in autonomous driving datasets may help to address challenges of data imbalance, redundancy, and high-dimensional data. We demonstrate the effectiveness of entropy qu...
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