Patent attributes
A method of robot autonomous navigation includes capturing an image of the environment, segmenting the captured image to identify one or more foreground objects and one or more background objects, determining a match between one or more of the foreground objects to one or more predefined image files, estimating an object pose for the one or more foreground objects by implementing an iterative estimation loop, determining a robot pose estimate by applying a robot-centric environmental model to the object pose estimate by implementing an iterative refinement loop, associating semantic labels to the matched foreground object, compiling a semantic map containing the semantic labels and segmented object image pose, and providing localization information to the robot based on the semantic map and the robot pose estimate. A system and a non-transitory computer-readable medium are also disclosed.
