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Unsupervised Hump Detection for Mobile Robots Based On Kinematic Measurements and Deep-Learning Based Autoencoder

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Small humps on the floor go beyond the detectable scope of laser scanners and are therefore not integrated into SLAM based maps of mobile robots. However, even such small irregularities can have a tremendous effect on the robot’s stability and the path quality. As a basis to develop anomaly detection algorithms, example kinematics data is collected for an overrun of a cable channel and a bulb plate. A recurrent neuronal network (RNN), based on the autoencoder principle, could be trained successfully with this data. The described RNN architecture looks promising to be used for realtime anomaly detection and also to quantify path quality.

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The kinematic measurements were executed in the Gait- and Motionlab Heidelberg, University Clinics and were supported by the local laboratory team. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy of Germany.

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Rettig, O., Müller, S., Strand, M., Katic, D. (2019). Unsupervised Hump Detection for Mobile Robots Based On Kinematic Measurements and Deep-Learning Based Autoencoder. In: Strand, M., Dillmann, R., Menegatti, E., Ghidoni, S. (eds) Intelligent Autonomous Systems 15. IAS 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 867. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01370-7_9

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