Roboat II：都市環境向け新型自律航行艇
Roboat II: A Novel Autonomous Surface Vessel for Urban Environments
都市交通向けの新型自律航行艇Roboat IIを開発し、LiDAR・IMU・GPS融合によるSLAM、モデル予測制御、経路計画を統合して狭い河川での追従走行を実証した論文。
著者: Wei Wang, Tixiao Shan, Pietro Leoni, David Fernandez-Gutierrez, Drew Meyers, Carlo Ratti, Daniela Rus
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
This paper presents a novel autonomous surface vessel (ASV), called Roboat II for urban transportation. Roboat II is capable of accurate simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), receding horizon tracking control and estimation, and path planning. Roboat II is designed to maximize the internal space for transport and can carry payloads several times of its own weight. Moreover, it is capable of holonomic motions to facilitate transporting, docking, and inter-connectivity between boats. The proposed SLAM system receives sensor data from a 3D LiDAR, an IMU, and a GPS, and utilizes a factor graph to tackle the multi-sensor fusion problem. To cope with the complex dynamics in the water, Roboat II employs an online nonlinear model predictive controller (NMPC), where we experimentally estimated the dynamical model of the vessel in order to achieve superior performance for tracking control. The states of Roboat II are simultaneously estimated using a nonlinear moving horizon estimation (NMHE) algorithm. Experiments demonstrate that Roboat II is able to successfully perform online mapping and localization, plan its path and robustly track the planned trajectory in the confined river, implying that this autonomous vessel holds the promise on potential applications in transporting humans and goods in many of the waterways nowadays.
