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Visual Subterranean Junction Recognition for MAVs based on Convolutional Neural Networks
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Signals and Systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7631-002x
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Signals and Systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0483-4868
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Signals and Systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8870-6718
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Signals and Systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8235-2728
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2019 (English)In: IECON 2019: 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IEEE, 2019, p. 192-197Conference paper, Published paper (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This article proposes a novel visual framework for detecting tunnel crossings/junctions in underground mine areas towards the autonomous navigation of Micro Aeril Vehicles (MAVs). Usually mine environments have complex geometries, including multiple crossings with different tunnels that challenge the autonomous planning of aerial robots. Towards the envisioned scenario of autonomous or semi-autonomous deployment of MAVs with limited Line-of-Sight in subterranean environments, the proposed module acknowledges the existence of junctions by providing crucial information to the autonomy and planning layers of the aerial vehicle. The capability for a junction detection is necessary in the majority of mission scenarios, including unknown area exploration, known area inspection and robot homing missions. The proposed novel method has the ability to feed the image stream from the vehicles’ on-board forward facing camera in a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) classification architecture, expressed in four categories: 1) left junction, 2) right junction, 3) left & right junction, and 4) no junction in the local vicinity of the vehicle. The core contribution stems for the incorporation of AlexNet in a transfer learning scheme for detecting multiple branches in a subterranean environment. The validity of the proposed method has been validated through multiple data-sets collected from real underground environments, demonstrating the performance and merits of the proposed module.

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IEEE, 2019. p. 192-197
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Annual Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society, ISSN 1553-572X, E-ISSN 2577-1647
Keywords [en]
Visual junction Detection, Convolutional Neural Network, Subterranean Autonomous Navigation, MAVs
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Control Engineering
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Control Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-75555DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2019.8926916ISI: 000522050600027Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85084124174OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-75555DiVA, id: diva2:1343323
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IEEE 45th Annual Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2019), 14-17 October, 2019, Lisbon, Portugal
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ISBN för värdpublikation: 978-1-7281-4878-6, 978-1-7281-4879-3

Available from: 2019-08-16 Created: 2019-08-16 Last updated: 2023-09-05Bibliographically approved

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