We propose a novel filter for segmenting the regions of interest from LiDAR 3D point cloud for multirotor aerial vehicles. It is specially targeted for real-time applications and works on sparse LiDAR point clouds without preliminary mapping. We use this filter as a crucial component of fast obstacle avoidance system for agriculture drone operating at low altitude. As the first step, each point cloud is transformed into a depth image and then identify places near to the vehicle (local maxima) by locating areas with high pixel densities. Afterwards, we merge the original depth image with identified locations after maximizing intensities of pixels in which local maxima were obtained. Next step is to calculate the range angle image that represents angles between two consecutive laser beams based on the improved depth image. Once the corresponding range angle image is constructed, smoothing is applied to reduce the noise. Finally, we find out connected components within the improved depth image while incorporating smoothed range angle image. This allows separating the regions of interest. The filter has been tested on various simulated environments as well as an actual drone and provides real-time performance. We make our source code, dataset2 and real world experiment3 available online.


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    Title :

    Regions of Interest Segmentation from LiDAR Point Cloud for Multirotor Aerial Vehicles


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    Publication date :

    2020-09-01


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    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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