Imitation Learning for Obstacle Avoidance Using End-to-End CNN-Based Sensor Fusion

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Autores principales: Zain, Lamiaa H., Ammar, Hossam H., Shalaby, Raafat E.
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Publicado: 2025
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author Zain, Lamiaa H.
Ammar, Hossam H.
Shalaby, Raafat E.
author_facet Zain, Lamiaa H.
Ammar, Hossam H.
Shalaby, Raafat E.
contents Obstacle avoidance is crucial for mobile robots' navigation in both known and unknown environments. This research designs, trains, and tests two custom Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), using color and depth images from a depth camera as inputs. Both networks adopt sensor fusion to produce an output: the mobile robot's angular velocity, which serves as the robot's steering command. A newly obtained visual dataset for navigation was collected in diverse environments with varying lighting conditions and dynamic obstacles. During data collection, a communication link was established over Wi-Fi between a remote server and the robot, using Robot Operating System (ROS) topics. Velocity commands were transmitted from the server to the robot, enabling synchronized recording of visual data and the corresponding steering commands. Various evaluation metrics, such as Mean Squared Error, Variance Score, and Feed-Forward time, provided a clear comparison between the two networks and clarified which one to use for the application.
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spellingShingle Imitation Learning for Obstacle Avoidance Using End-to-End CNN-Based Sensor Fusion
Zain, Lamiaa H.
Ammar, Hossam H.
Shalaby, Raafat E.
Robotics
Obstacle avoidance is crucial for mobile robots' navigation in both known and unknown environments. This research designs, trains, and tests two custom Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), using color and depth images from a depth camera as inputs. Both networks adopt sensor fusion to produce an output: the mobile robot's angular velocity, which serves as the robot's steering command. A newly obtained visual dataset for navigation was collected in diverse environments with varying lighting conditions and dynamic obstacles. During data collection, a communication link was established over Wi-Fi between a remote server and the robot, using Robot Operating System (ROS) topics. Velocity commands were transmitted from the server to the robot, enabling synchronized recording of visual data and the corresponding steering commands. Various evaluation metrics, such as Mean Squared Error, Variance Score, and Feed-Forward time, provided a clear comparison between the two networks and clarified which one to use for the application.
title Imitation Learning for Obstacle Avoidance Using End-to-End CNN-Based Sensor Fusion
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08112