Master Thesis - Fusion of RADAR and LiDAR Data for Localization in Outdoor Environments
In the Professional Service Robots - Outdoor research group we develop autonomous, mobile robots for a variety of outdoor applications, such as agriculture and forestry. The focus is on the development of an autonomous outdoor navigation solution as well as the hardware of the robots.
Compared to predictable indoor environments the outdoor areas inherit more and unknown obstacles and external influences. The most used sensors to percept and interpret the environment in robotics are currently cameras and LiDAR sensors. Besides them RADAR sensors are often used in automated driving and have some benefits in outdoor environments due to their robustness to external influences like rain or fog. By fusing RADAR and LiDAR data we can improve the robustness of the following localization approaches.
What you will do
This thesis aims to fuse RADAR and LiDAR data to enable more robust localisation in challenging outdoor conditions. Based on the current state of research on the use and advantages and disadvantages of the different sensor systems, you will evaluate the potential of fusion for localisation purposes. You will design a post-processing pipeline to generate a fused point cloud and a strategy to use this information in a generalised point cloud odometry algorithm. You will implement your algorithms with ROS on our robots and regularly test and evaluate them in different agricultural environments under different weather conditions.
What you bring to the table
What you can expect
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