Domain Adaptation for Outdoor Robot Traversability Estimation from RGB data with Safety-Preserving Loss

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07565v1
• Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 09:19:33 GMT
• Title: Domain Adaptation for Outdoor Robot Traversability Estimation from RGB data with Safety-Preserving Loss
• Authors: Simone Palazzo, Dario C. Guastella, Luciano Cantelli, Paolo Spadaro, Francesco Rundo, Giovanni Muscato, Daniela Giordano, Concetto Spampinato
• Abstract summary: We present an approach based on deep learning to estimate and anticipate the traversing score of different routes in the field of view of an on-board RGB camera. We then enhance the model's capabilities by addressing domain shifts through gradient-reversal unsupervised adaptation. Experimental results show that our approach is able to satisfactorily identify traversable areas and to generalize to unseen locations.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Being able to estimate the traversability of the area surrounding a mobile robot is a fundamental task in the design of a navigation algorithm. However, the task is often complex, since it requires evaluating distances from obstacles, type and slope of terrain, and dealing with non-obvious discontinuities in detected distances due to perspective. In this paper, we present an approach based on deep learning to estimate and anticipate the traversing score of different routes in the field of view of an on-board RGB camera. The backbone of the proposed model is based on a state-of-the-art deep segmentation model, which is fine-tuned on the task of predicting route traversability. We then enhance the model's capabilities by a) addressing domain shifts through gradient-reversal unsupervised adaptation, and b) accounting for the specific safety requirements of a mobile robot, by encouraging the model to err on the safe side, i.e., penalizing errors that would cause collisions with obstacles more than those that would cause the robot to stop in advance. Experimental results show that our approach is able to satisfactorily identify traversable areas and to generalize to unseen locations.

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