Elevation Mapping for Locomotion and Navigation using GPU

Takahiro Miki,Lorenz Wellhausen,Ruben Grandia,Fabian Jenelten,Timon Homberger,Marco Hutter,Takahiro Miki,Lorenz Wellhausen,Ruben Grandia,Fabian Jenelten,Timon Homberger,Marco Hutter

Perceiving the surrounding environment is crucial for autonomous mobile robots. An elevation map provides a memory-efficient and simple yet powerful geometric represen-tation of the terrain for ground robots. The robots can use this information for navigation in an unknown environment or perceptive locomotion control over rough terrain. Depending on the application, various post processing steps m...