Object-Aware View Planning for Autonomous 3D Model Reconstruction of Buildings Using a Mobile Robot
1. Introduction
The view planning approach aims at 3D model reconstruction of buildings using outdoor mobile robot using a solid-state LiDAR and a gimbal. We introduce object awareness into the map representation to reconstruct the specific buildings while ignoring unrelated objects in the environment. Frontier- and sampling-based strategies are combined to plan the view sequences for the effective observation of a target building. Note that this is a extended project of our previous work RAMBO , wherein some unused functions were removed and new functions have been developed.
Authors: Yuxiang Li, Jiancheng Wang, Haoyao Chen from the Networked RObotics and Sytems Lab, Yunhui Liu, and Xin Jiang.
If you use the project for your academic research, please cite the following paper .
@ARTICLE{10132570,
author={Li, Yuxiang and Wang, Jiancheng and Chen, Haoyao and Jiang, Xin and Liu, Yunhui},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement},
title={Object-Aware View Planning for Autonomous 3D Model Reconstruction of Buildings Using a Mobile Robot},
year={2023},
volume={},
number={},
pages={1-1},
doi={10.1109/TIM.2023.3279424}}
2. Installation
Tested on Ubuntu 18.04 with ROS Melodic.
- Install Dependencies
sudo apt install libsuitesparse-dev ros-"$ROS_DISTRO"-ros-control
ros-"$ROS_DISTRO"-controller-manager
ros-"$ROS_DISTRO"-joint-state-controller
ros-"$ROS_DISTRO"-effort-controllers
ros-"$ROS_DISTRO"-ros-controllers
ros-"$ROS_DISTRO"-gazebo-ros-control
ros-"$ROS_DISTRO"-transmission-interface
ros-"$ROS_DISTRO"-velodyne-simulator
ros-"$ROS_DISTRO"-turtlebot3
ros-"$ROS_DISTRO"-move-base
ros-"$ROS_DISTRO"-pointcloud-to-laserscan
ros-"$ROS_DISTRO"-dwa-local-planner
ros-"$ROS_DISTRO"-global-planner
ros-"$ROS_DISTRO"-costmap-converter
ros-"$ROS_DISTRO"-teb-local-planner
ros-"$ROS_DISTRO"-octomap-msgs
ros-"$ROS_DISTRO"-octomap-ros
binutils-dev
- Clone 3rd-Party Packages. Follow our previous work RAMBO to install the third-party dependencies.
mkdir catkin_ws/src -p
cd catkin_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/HITSZ-NRSL/RAMBO_3rd_party_packages.git
- Compile
cd catkin_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/HITSZ-NRSL/active_mapping_dvc.git
cd ../
catkin build
3. Run Examples
- Gazebo
roslaunch active_mapping mr1000_gazebo_house.launch
- Mapping
roslaunch active_mapping mr1000_ac_house.launch