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Mobile robot navigation in urban environments is a very complex task. As no single sensor is capable to deal with these situations by itself, sensor fusion techniques are required to allow safe navigation in this type of environment. This paper proposes an approach to combine different sensors in order to assist a driver in a cooperative manner. An adaptive attention zone in front of the vehicle is defined and the driver is notified about obstacles presence, identifying dangerous situations. Experiments using a commercial vehicle loaded with GPS and a LIDAR sensor have been performed in real environments in order to evaluate proposed approach.
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Fernandes, L.C., Dias, M.A., Osório, F.S., Wolf, D.F. (2010). A Driving Assistance System for Navigation in Urban Environments. In: Kuri-Morales, A., Simari, G.R. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence – IBERAMIA 2010. IBERAMIA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6433. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16952-6_55
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