Elevation Mapping for Locomotion and Navigation using GPU

Understand

Perceiving the surrounding environment is crucial for autonomous mobile robots.

• An elevation map provides a memory-efficient and simple yet powerful geometric representation for ground robots.
• The robots can use this information for navigation in an unknown environment or perceptive locomotion control over rough terrain.
• Depending on the application, various post processing steps may be incorporated, such as smoothing, inpainting or plane segmentation.