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Main Authors: Brömmel, Piet, Brämer, Dominik, Urbann, Oliver, Kleingarn, Diana
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03249
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author Brömmel, Piet
Brämer, Dominik
Urbann, Oliver
Kleingarn, Diana
author_facet Brömmel, Piet
Brämer, Dominik
Urbann, Oliver
Kleingarn, Diana
contents The localization of moving robots depends on the availability of good features from the environment. Sensor systems like Lidar are popular, but unique features can also be extracted from images of the ground. This work presents the Keypoint Localization Framework (KOALA), which utilizes deep neural networks that extract sufficient features from an industrial floor for accurate localization without having readable markers. For this purpose, we use a floor covering that can be produced as cheaply as common industrial floors. Although we do not use any filtering, prior, or temporal information, we can estimate our position in 75.7 % of all images with a mean position error of 2 cm and a rotation error of 2.4 %. Thus, the robot kidnapping problem can be solved with high precision in every frame, even while the robot is moving. Furthermore, we show that our framework with our detector and descriptor combination is able to outperform comparable approaches.
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spellingShingle Robot Localization Using a Learned Keypoint Detector and Descriptor with a Floor Camera and a Feature Rich Industrial Floor
Brömmel, Piet
Brämer, Dominik
Urbann, Oliver
Kleingarn, Diana
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
The localization of moving robots depends on the availability of good features from the environment. Sensor systems like Lidar are popular, but unique features can also be extracted from images of the ground. This work presents the Keypoint Localization Framework (KOALA), which utilizes deep neural networks that extract sufficient features from an industrial floor for accurate localization without having readable markers. For this purpose, we use a floor covering that can be produced as cheaply as common industrial floors. Although we do not use any filtering, prior, or temporal information, we can estimate our position in 75.7 % of all images with a mean position error of 2 cm and a rotation error of 2.4 %. Thus, the robot kidnapping problem can be solved with high precision in every frame, even while the robot is moving. Furthermore, we show that our framework with our detector and descriptor combination is able to outperform comparable approaches.
title Robot Localization Using a Learned Keypoint Detector and Descriptor with a Floor Camera and a Feature Rich Industrial Floor
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03249