Robot environment representation based on Quadtree organization of Fuzzy Signatures

Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach to mobile robot environment representation to hold information on detected obstacles. The method is inspired by fuzzy signature-based formalism and is based on classical quadtrees as a data indexing structure. Each detected feature point is evaluated by a fuzzy-ruleset defining the presumed significance of each detected object. Feature points and their fuzzy-mapping are indexed in a classical quadtree-based fashion. During the reconstruction of the environment representation, inference is done by the traversal on the constructed tree using accumulated fuzzy-ruleset. Our goal is to use this representation format for further robotic tasks such as obstacle avoidance in a distributed computational environment.