A probabilistic approach to Hough localization

Abstract

Autonomous navigation for mobile robots performing complex tasks over long periods of time requires effec-tive and robust self-localization techniques. In this paper we describe a probabilistic approach to self-localization that integrates Kalman filtering with map matching based on the Hough Transform. Several sys-tematic experiments for evaluating the approach have been performed both on a simulator and on soccer robots embedded in the RoboCup environment. 1