학술논문

Probabilistic road geometry estimation using a millimetre-wave radar
Document Type
Conference
Source
2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on. :4601-4607 Sep, 2011
Subject
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Roads
Vehicles
Radar detection
Kalman filters
Radar measurements
Geometry
Language
ISSN
2153-0858
2153-0866
Abstract
This paper presents a probabilistic framework for road geometry estimation using a millimetre wave radar. It aims at estimating the geometry of roads without assuming any particular infrastructure such as lane marks. It provides also the vehicle location with respect to the edges of the road. This system employs a radar sensor in view of its robustness to weather conditions such as fog, dust, rain and snow. The proposed approach is robust to noisy measurements since the radar target locations are modelled as Gaussian distributions. These observations are integrated into a Kalman Particle filter to estimate the posterior distribution of the parameters that best describe the geometry of the road. Experimental results using data acquired on a highway road are presented. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated by a qualitative analysis of the results.