Achim Lilienthal, Felix Streichert, and Andreas Zell
Model-based Shape Analysis of Gas Concentration Gridmaps for Improved Gas Source Localisation
ICRA 2005, Barcelona, Spain, April 18 - 22, 2005, pp. 3575 - 3580
Abstract
This work addresses the capability to use concentration gridmaps to locate a static gas source.
In previous works it was found that
depending on the shape of the mapped gas distribution
(corresponding to different airflow conditions)
the gas source location can be sometimes approximated
with high accuracy by the maximum in the concentration map
while this is not possible in other cases.
This paper introduces a method to distinguish both cases
by analysing the shape of the obtained concentration map
in terms of a model of the time-averaged gas distribution known from physics.
The parameters of the model
that approximates the concentration map most closely
are determined
by nonlinear least squares fitting
using evolution strategies (ES).
The best fit
also provides a better estimate of the gas source position
in situations where the concentration maximum estimate fails.
Different methods to select the most truthful estimate
are introduced in this work
and a comparison regarding their accuracy
is presented,
based on a total of 34h of concentration mapping experiments.
Index Terms - Gas concentration mapping, gas source localisation.
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Lilienthal:ICRA2005,
AUTHOR = "Achim Lilienthal and Felix Streichert and Andreas Zell",
TITLE = "Model-based Shape Analysis of Gas Concentration Gridmaps for Improved Gas Source Localisation",
BOOKTITLE = "Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2005)",
YEAR = "2005",
PAGES = "3575 -- 3580"
}