A Kalman Filter Based Approach To Probabilistic Gas Distribution Mapping
2013 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Building a model of gas concentrations has important indus-trial and environmental applications, and mobile robots ontheir own or in cooperation with stationary sensors play animportant role in this task. Since an exact analytical de-scription of turbulent flow remains an intractable problem,we propose an approximate approach which not only esti-mates the concentrations but also their variances for eachlocation. Our point of view is that of sequential Bayesianestimation given a lattice of 2D cells treated as hidden vari-ables. We first discuss how a simple Kalman filter pro-vides a solution to the estimation problem. To overcomethe quadratic computational complexity with the mappedarea exhibited by a straighforward application of Kalmanfiltering, we introduce a sparse implementation which runsin constant time. Experimental results for a real robot vali-date the proposed method.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
ACM Digital Library, 2013. p. 217-222
Keywords [en]
Kalman Filter, Gas Distribution Mapping, Mobile Olfaction
National Category
Computer Sciences
Research subject
Computer Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-32672DOI: 10.1145/2480362.2480409Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84877944182ISBN: 9781450316569 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-32672DiVA, id: diva2:676862
Conference
28th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2013), Special Track on Intelligent Robotics Systems
Note
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2013-12-072013-12-072023-05-12Bibliographically approved