labimage / floordetection

Autonomous floor-detection and path-following for mobile robots using ROS

Description

This is a ROS node that performs image-processing in order to detect a traversable path and commands a mobile robot to follow it. The documentation at the moment is incomplete but will soon be updated.

Citation

This code is the implementation of the method presented in several scientific works. If this code is used either as-is or as part of a larger project, it is mandatory to cite the following works:

[1] “Real-time monocular image based path detection”, Pablo De Cristóforis, Matias Nitsche; Tomas Krajnik, Marta Mejail, Journal of Real Time Image Processing, Special Issue, Junio de 2013, p1-14, Springer-Verlag

[2] “Real-time on-board image processing using an embedded GPU for monocular vision-based navigation”, Matías Nitsche, Pablo De Cristóforis, Lectures Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, vol 7441, 2012, pp 591-598, ISSN 0302-9743.