arXiv (Cornell University)
Kinematics Based Visual Localization for Skid-Steering Robots: Algorithm and Theory.
June 2020 • Xingxing Zuo, Mingming Zhang, Yiming Chen, Guoquan Huang, Yong Liu, Mingyang Li
To build commercial robots, skid-steering mechanical design is of increased popularity due to its manufacturing simplicity and unique mechanism. However, these also cause significant challenges on software and algorithm design, especially for pose estimation (i.e., determining the robot's rotation and position), which is the prerequisite of autonomous navigation. While the general localization algorithms have been extensively studied in research communities, there are still fundamental problems that need to be res…