Improved particle filtering for pseudo-uniform belief distributions in robot localisation

David Budden, Mikhail Prokopenko

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Abstract

Self-localisation, or the process of an autonomous agent determining its own position and orientation within some local environment, is a critical task in modern robotics. Although this task may be formally defined as a simple transformation between local and global coordinate systems, the process of accurately and efficiently determining this transformation is a complex task. This is particularly the case in an environment where localisation must be inferred entirely from noisy visual data, such as the RoboCup robot soccer competitions. Although many effective probabilistic filters exist for solving this task in its general form, pseudo-uniform belief distributions (such as those arising from course-grain observations) exhibit properties allowing for further performance improvement. This paper explores the RoboCup 2D Simulation League as one such scenario, approximating the artificially constrained noise models as uniform to derive an improved particle filter for self-localisation. The developed system is demonstrated to yield from 38.2 to 201.3% reduction in localisation error, which is further shown as corresponding with a 6.4% improvement in goal difference across approximately 750 games.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRoboCup 2013
Subtitle of host publicationRobot World Cup XVII
EditorsSven Behnke, Manuela Veloso, Arnoud Visser, Rong Xiong
Place of PublicationBerlin, Heidelberg
PublisherSpringer, Springer Nature
Pages385-395
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9783662444689
ISBN (Print)9783662444672
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event17th RoboCup International Symposium, RoboCup 2013 - Eindhoven, Netherlands
Duration: 1 Jul 20131 Jul 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in artificial intelligence (subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
PublisherSpringer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Volume8371
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other17th RoboCup International Symposium, RoboCup 2013
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityEindhoven
Period1/07/131/07/13

Keywords

  • Robotics
  • localisation
  • particle filter
  • robot soccer

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