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2018

Occupancy Map Prediction Using Generative and Fully Convolutional Networks for Vehicle Navigation


Abstract

Fast, collision-free motion through unknown environments remains a challenging problem for robotic systems. In these situations, the robot's ability to reason about its future motion is often severely limited by sensor field of view (FOV). By contrast, biological systems routinely make decisions by taking into consideration what might exist beyond their FOV based on prior experience. In this paper, we present an approach for predicting occupancy map representations of sensor data for future robot motions using deep neural networks. We evaluate several deep network architectures, including purely generative and adversarial models. Testing on both simulated and real environments we demonstrated performance both qualitatively and quantitatively, with SSIM similarity measure up to 0.899. We showed that it is possible to make predictions about occupied space beyond the physical robot's FOV from simulated training data. In the future, this method will allow robots to navigate through unknown environments in a faster, safer manner.

Citation

@onlineKatyal_2018 author: Katyal Kapil and Popek Katie and Paxton Chris and Moore Joseph and Wolfe Kevin and Burlina Philippe and Hager Gregory D. title: Occupancy Map Prediction Using Generative and Fully Convolutional Networks for Vehicle Navigation year: 2018 month: Mar eprinttype: arXiv eprint: 1803.02007v1 howpublished: arXiv:1803.02007v1 url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02007v1

Citation

@onlineKatyal_2018 author: Katyal Kapil and Popek Katie and Paxton Chris and Moore Joseph and Wolfe Kevin and Burlina Philippe and Hager Gregory D. title: Occupancy Map Prediction Using Generative and Fully Convolutional Networks for Vehicle Navigation year: 2018 month: Mar eprinttype: arXiv eprint: 1803.02007v1 howpublished: arXiv:1803.02007v1 url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02007v1