Experiment of December 3rd, 2003 : Wean Hall 6th floor


Conducted by Brad Lisien (blisien@andrew.cmu.edu) and Deryck Morales (deryck@cmu.edu)

This experiment was conducted on the 6th floor of Wean Hall here at Carnegie Mellon

Driving to an edge map goal coordinate : kidnapped robot variation

Results:

The RGVG of the environment
The path of the robot from start to goal.



Discussion

This experiment was setup the same way as the previous edge map goal experiments,
with the robot being placed opposite the conference room door, such that the robot turns not towards its
given start node location (N2), but towards a different node (N1).

The robot drives to node 1 and since nodes 1 and 2 are similar, it believes that it is at node 2 having arrived on
edge 0. In fact the robot has arrived at node 1 on edge 1. The robot plans its path to node 4, and departs along
edge 1:2 under the belief that it is departing on edge 2:1. Upon arriving at node 12 on edge 1, the robot finds
a mismatch between the expected path and the observed information, and so uses the observed information to localize.

Now that the robot is aware of its true location, the path to the goal is re-calculated, and the robot drives to
node 4 without incident, and again successfully departs the GVG edge 4:2 and drives to its edge map goal coordinate.

 


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