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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2014
Korea University Research and Business Foundation, Seoul, KR;
Woojin Chung, Seoul, KR;
Hyunsuk Lee, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for extracting a curb of a road using a laser range finder and a method for localizing of a mobile robot using curb information of a road. The method for extracting the curb of the road using the laser range finder includes extracting a road surface and line segments from scan data of the laser range finder, extracting a plurality of curb candidate line segments among the line segments on the basis of an angle between the road surface and the line segment, extracting a plurality of curb candidates having a plurality of curb properties, wherein each of the plurality of curb candidates is generated by combining the couple of the curb candidate line segments, and applying the plurality of the curb candidates to a Kernel Fisher Discriminant Analysis to extract a final curb.