Illumination Insensitive Robot Self-Localization Using Panoramic Eigenspaces

Gerald Steinbauer, Horst Bischof

Abstract: We propose to use a robust method for appearance-based matching that has been shown to be insensitive to illumination and occlusion for robot self-localization. The drawback of this method is that it relies on panoramic images taken in one certain orientation, restricts the heading of the robot throughout navigation or needs additional sensors for orientation, e.g. a compass. To avoid these problems we propose a combination of the appearance-based method with odometry data. We demonstrate the robustness of the proposed self-localization against changes in illumination by experimental results obtained in the RoboCup Middle-Size scenario.