LIDAR-based road and road-edge detection
- 1 June 2010
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 845-848
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ivs.2010.5548134
Abstract
In this paper, a LIDAR-based road and road-edge detection method is proposed to identify road regions and road-edges, which is an essential component of autonomous vehicles. LIDAR range data is decomposed into signals in elevation and signals projected on the ground plane. First, the elevation-based signals are processed by filtering techniques to identify the road candidate region, and by pattern recognition techniques to determine whether the candidate region is a road segment. Then, the line representation of the projected signals on the ground plane is identified and compared to a simple road model in the top-down view to determine whether the candidate region is a road segment with its road-edges. The proposed method provides fast processing speed and reliable detection performance of road and road-edge detection. The proposed framework has been verified through the DARPA Urban Challenge to show its robustness and efficiency on the winning entry Boss vehicle.Keywords
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