State estimation for a holonomic omniwheel robot using a particle filter

The holonomic robot platform designed for the Opera of the Future must perform continuously on stage in a 10 meter by 20 meter world for one hour. The robot interacts with twelve other robots, stage elements, and human performers. Fast, accurate, and continuous state estimation for robot pose is a critical component for robots to safely perform on stage in front of a live audience. A custom robot platform was designed to use a Particle Filter to estimate state. The motor controller was developed to control robot vectoring and report odometry, and noise analysis on an absolute positioning system, Ubisense, was performed to characterize the system. High frequency noise confounds the Ubisense measurement of 0, but the Particle Filter acts as a low pass filter on the absolute positions and mixes the high frequency components of the odometry to determine an accurate estimate of the robot pose.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• Eng, Donald S

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Leslie Kaelbling.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61159

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/61159