Matteo Reggente and Achim J. Lilienthal
Using Local Wind Information for Gas Distribution Mapping in Outdoor Environments with a Mobile Robot
Abstract:
In this paper we introduce a statistical method to build two-dimensional gas distribution maps
(Kernel DM+V/W algorithm).
In addition to gas sensor measurements,
the proposed method also takes into account wind information
by modeling the information content of the gas sensor measurements as a bivariate Gaussian kernel
whose shape depends on the measured wind vector.
We evaluate the method based on real measurements in an outdoor environment obtained with a mobile robot
that was equipped with gas sensors and an ultrasonic anemometer for wind measurements.
As a measure of the model quality
we compute how well unseen measurements are predicted in terms of the data likelihood.
The initial results are encouraging and
show a clear improvement of the proposed method compared to the case where wind is not considered.
Bibtex:
@INPROCEEDINGS{Reggente_Lilienthal:IEEESensors:2009,
author = {Reggente, Matteo and Lilienthal, Achim J.},
title = {Using Local Wind Information for Gas Distribution Mapping in Outdoor Environments with a Mobile Robot},
booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE Sensors},
year = {2009},
DATE = {October 25--28},
ADRESS = {Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand},
pages = {1715-1720}
}