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I'm implementing Monte-Carlo localization for my robot that is given a map of the enviroment and its starting location and orientation. Mine approach is as follows:

  1. Uniformly create 500 particles around the given position
  2. Then at each step:
    • motion update all the particles with odometry (my current approach is newX=oldX+ odometryX(1+standardGaussianRandom), etc.)
    • assign weight to each particle using sonar data (formula is for each sensor probability*=gaussianPDF(realReading) where gaussian has the mean predictedReading)
    • return the particle with biggest probability as the location at this step
    • then 9/10 of new particles are resampled from the old ones according to weights and 1/10 is uniformly sampled around the predicted position

Now, I wrote a simulator for the robot's enviroment and here is how this localization behaves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7q3cqktwZI

I'm very afraid that for a longer period of time the robot may get lost. If add particles to a wider area, the robot gets lost even easier.

I expect a better performance. Any advice?

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  • $\begingroup$ The performance shown in the video is good, considering a single sonar sensor. Do you have an example video of the robot being lost? $\endgroup$
    – Demetris
    Jan 21, 2014 at 8:35
  • $\begingroup$ There are actually 5 sonars, would still say it's good? I don't have a video of the robot getting lost, but I'll try it today on a real robot. $\endgroup$
    – Andrei Ivanov
    Jan 21, 2014 at 15:33
  • $\begingroup$ It's not clear to me what your concern is. The PF you implemented seems to work fine. Maybe you can be more detailed on what you think is the problem. $\endgroup$
    – Demetris
    Jan 21, 2014 at 19:47
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    – Mark Booth
    Jan 22, 2014 at 2:13
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    $\begingroup$ Welcome to Robotics Andrei Ivanov. As it stands it isn't clear what your actual question is here. We prefer practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Take a look at How to Ask and tour for more information on how stack exchange works, and think about how you can edit your question to make it more answerable. $\endgroup$
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I just answered the question on StackOverflow, where it already been asked. Here is the link:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21249131/monte-carlo-localization-for-mobile-robot

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  • $\begingroup$ read your answer you are right :) $\endgroup$
    – Neo
    Feb 4, 2014 at 6:46

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