% Copyright (C) 1993-2013, by Peter I. Corke % % This file is part of The Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB (RTB). % % RTB is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify % it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by % the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or % (at your option) any later version. % % RTB is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, % but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of % MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the % GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. % % You should have received a copy of the GNU Leser General Public License % along with RTB. If not, see . % % http://www.petercorke.com %%begin % Our SLAM system requires a number of components: % * a vehicle % * a map that defines the positions of some known landmarks in the world % * a sensor, a range-bearing sensor in this case % * a SLAM filter % Creating the vehicle. First we define the covariance of the vehicles's odometry % which reports distance travelled and change in heading angle V = diag([0.005, 0.5*pi/180].^2); % then use this to create an instance of a Vehicle class veh = Vehicle(V); % and then add a "driver" to move it between random waypoints in a square % region with dimensions from -10 to +10 veh.add_driver( RandomPath(10) ); % Creating the map. The map covers a square region with dimensions from % -10 to +10 and contains 20 randomly placed landmarks map = Map(20, 10); % Creating the sensor. We firstly define the covariance of the sensor measurements % which report distance and bearing angle W = diag([0.1, 1*pi/180].^2); % and then use this to create an instance of the Sensor class. sensor = RangeBearingSensor(veh, map, W, 'animate'); % Note that the sensor is mounted on the moving robot and observes the features % in the world so it is connected to the already created Vehicle and Map objects. % Create the filter. First we need to determine the initial covariance of the % vehicle, this is our uncertainty about its pose (x, y, theta) P0 = diag([0.005, 0.005, 0.001].^2); % Now we create an instance of the EKF filter class ekf = EKF(veh, V, P0, sensor, W, []); % and connect it to the vehicle and the sensor and give estimates of the vehicle % and sensor covariance (we never know this is practice). % Now we will run the filter for 1000 time steps. At each step the vehicle % moves, reports its odometry and the sensor measurements and the filter updates % its estimate of the vehicle's pose ekf.run(1000); % all the results of the simulation are stored within the EKF object % First let's plot the map clf; map.plot() % and then overlay the path actually taken by the vehicle veh.plot_xy('b'); % and then overlay the path estimated by the filter ekf.plot_xy('r'); % which we see are pretty close % Now let's plot the error in estimating the pose ekf.plot_error() % and this is overlaid with the estimated covariance of the error. % Remember that the SLAM filter has not only estimated the robot's pose, it has % simultaneously estimated the positions of the landmarks as well. How well did it % do at that task? We will show the landmarks in the map again map.plot(); % and this time overlay the estimated landmark (with a +) and the 3sigma % uncertainty bounds as green ellipses ekf.plot_map(3,'g');