Mobile robot localization and object pose estimation using optical encoder, vision and laser sensors
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A key problem of a mobile robot system is how to localize itself and detect objects in the workspace. In this paper, a multiple sensor based robot localization and object pose estimation method is presented. First, optical encoders and odometry model are utilized to determine the pose of the mobile robot in the workspace, with respect to the global coordinate system. Next, a CCD camera is used as a passive sensor to find an object (a box) in the environment, including the specific vertical surfaces of the box. By identifying and tracking color blobs which are attached to the center of each vertical surface of the box, the robot rotates and adjusts its base pose to move the color blob into the center of the camera view in order to make sure that the box is in the range of the laser scanner. Finally, a laser range finder, which is mounted on the top of the mobile robot, is activated to detect and compute the distances and angles between the laser source and laser contact surface on the box. Based on the information acquired in this manner, the global pose of the robot and the box can be represented using the homogeneous transformation matrix. This approach is validated using the Microsoft Robotics Studio simulation environment.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".