Among the huge number of functionalities that are required for autonomous navigation, the most important are localization, mapping, and path planning. In this article, investigation of the path planning problem of unmanned ground vehicle is based on optimal control theory and simultaneous localization and mapping. A new approach of optimal simultaneous localization, mapping, and path planning is proposed. Our approach is mainly affected by vehicle's kinematics and environment constraints. Simultaneous localization, mapping, and path planning algorithm requires two main stages. First, the simultaneous localization and mapping algorithm depends on the robust smooth variable structure filter estimate accurate positions of the unmanned ground vehicle. Then, an optimal path is planned using the aforementioned positions. The aim of the simultaneous localization, mapping, and path planning algorithm is to find an optimal path planning using the Shooting and Bellman methods which minimizes the final time of the unmanned ground vehicle path tracking. The simultaneous localization, mapping, and path planning algorithm has been approved in simulation, experiments, and including real data employing the mobile robot Pioneer P3ÀAT. The obtained results using smooth variable structure filter-simultaneous localization and mapping positions and the Bellman approach show path generation improvements in terms of accuracy, smoothness, and continuity compared to extended Kalman filter-simultaneous localization and mapping positions.
The aim of this paper is to present a cooperative simultaneous localization and mapping (CSLAM) solution based on a laser telemeter. The proposed solution gives the opportunity to a group of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to construct a large map and localize themselves without any human intervention. Many solutions proposed to solve this problem, most of them are based on the sequential probabilistic approach, based around Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) or the Rao-Blackwellized particle filter. In our work, we propose a new alternative to avoid these limitations, a novel alternative solution based on the smooth variable structure filter (SVSF) to solve the UGV SLAM problem is proposed. This version of SVSF-SLAM algorithm uses a boundary layer width vector and does not require covariance derivation. The new algorithm has been developed to implement the SVSF filter for CSLAM. Our contribution deals with adapting the SVSF to solve the CSLAM problem for multiple UGVs. The algorithms developed in this work were implemented using a swarm of mobile robots Pioneer 3-AT. Two mapping approaches, point-based and line-based, are implemented and validated experimentally using 2D laser telemeter sensors. Good results are obtained by the Cooperative SVSF-SLAM algorithm compared with the Cooperative EKF-SLAM.
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