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This work considers the problem of building high-fidelity 3D representations of the environment from sensor data acquired by mobile robots. Multi-sensor data fusion allows for more complete and accurate representations, and for more reliable perception, especially when different sensing modalities are used. In this paper, we propose a thorough experimental analysis of the performance of 3D surface reconstruction from laser and mm-wave radar data using Gaussian Process Implicit Surfaces (GPIS), in a realistic field robotics scenario. We first analyse the performance of GPIS using raw laser data alone and raw radar data alone, respectively, with different choices of covariance matrices and different resolutions of the input data. We then evaluate and compare the performance of two different GPIS fusion approaches. The first, state-of-the-art approach directly fuses raw data from laser and radar. The alternative approach proposed in this paper first computes an initial estimate of the surface from each single source of data, and then fuses these two estimates. We show that this method outperforms the state of the art, especially in situations where the sensors react differently to the targets they perceive.
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Gerardo-Castro, M.P., Peynot, T., Ramos, F. (2015). Laser-Radar Data Fusion with Gaussian Process Implicit Surfaces. In: Mejias, L., Corke, P., Roberts, J. (eds) Field and Service Robotics. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 105. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07488-7_20
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