GLANS: GIS Based Large-Scale Autonomous Navigation System

The simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems are widely used for self-localization of a robot, which is the basis of autonomous navigation. However, the state-of-art SLAM systems cannot suffice when navigating in large-scale environments due to memory limit and localization errors. In this paper, we propose a Geographic Information System (GIS) based autonomous navigation system (GLANS). In GLANS, a topological path is suggested by GIS database and a robot can move accordingly while being able to detect the obstacles and adjust the path. Moreover, the mapping results can be shared among multi-robots to re-localize a robot in the same area without GPS assistance. It has been proved functioning well in the simulation environment of a campus scenario.

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