Traversability analysis for autonomous driving in complex environment: A LiDAR‐based terrain modeling approach

H Xue, H Fu, L Xiao, Y Fan, D Zhao… - Journal of Field …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
For autonomous driving, traversability analysis is one of the most basic and essential tasks.
In this paper, we propose a novel LiDAR‐based terrain modeling approach, which could …

Terrain traversability mapping based on lidar and camera fusion

L Zhou, J Wang, S Lin, Z Chen - 2022 8th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terrain traversability mapping plays an important role in autonomous exploration of
unmanned ground vehicles. In many cases, information from a single sensor such as LiDAR …

Dynamic resolution terrain estimation for autonomous (dirt) road driving fusing lidar and vision

B Forkel, HJ Wuensche - 2022 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For autonomous driving on rural or dirt roads-neither urban nor off-road-a large terrain area
needs to be estimated at high spatial resolution. However, available computing time is very …

A terrain description method for traversability analysis based on elevation grid map

X Meng, Z Cao, S Liang, L Pang… - … Journal of Advanced …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Terrain traversability analysis is a challenging problem for mobile robots to adapt to complex
environments, including the detection of cluttered obstacles, potholes, or even slopes. With …

LiDAR-Only Ground Vehicle Navigation System in Park Environment

K Wang, J Li, M Xu, Z Chen, J Wang - World Electric Vehicle Journal, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a novel and complete navigation system is proposed for mobile ground
vehicles in a park environment. LiDAR map representation and maintenance, dynamic …

Fast terrain traversability estimation with terrestrial lidar in off-road autonomous navigation

C Goodin, L Dabbiru, C Hudson… - Unmanned Systems …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Autonomous navigation (also known as self-driving) has rapidly advanced in the last decade
for on-road vehicles. In contrast, off-road vehicles still lag in autonomous navigation …

Probabilistic traversability map generation using 3D-LIDAR and camera

J Sock, J Kim, J Min, K Kwak - 2016 IEEE international …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Estimating the traversability of rough terrain is a critical task for an outdoor mobile robot.
While classifying structured environment can be learned from large number of training data …

Normal distributions transform traversability maps: lidar‐only approach for traversability mapping in outdoor environments

J Ahtiainen, T Stoyanov, J Saarinen - Journal of Field Robotics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Safe and reliable autonomous navigation in unstructured environments remains a challenge
for field robots. In particular, operating on vegetated terrain is problematic, because simple …

Trajectory prediction for autonomous driving with topometric map

J Xu, L Xiao, D Zhao, Y Nie… - … Conference on Robotics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
State-of-the-art autonomous driving systems rely on high definition (HD) maps for
localization and navigation. However, building and maintaining HD maps is time-consuming …

Forest Traversability Mapping (FTM): Traversability estimation using 3D voxel-based Normal Distributed Transform to enable forest navigation

F Ruetz, P Borges, N Suenderhauf… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous navigation in dense vegetation remains an open challenge and is an area of
major interest for the research community. In this paper we propose a novel traversability …