Objective speckle velocimetry for autonomous vehicle odometry

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2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

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D. Francis, T. O. H. Charrett, L. Waugh, and R. P. Tatam. Objective speckle velocimetry for autonomous vehicle odometry. Applied Optics, 2012, Volume 51, Issue 16, Pages 3478-3490

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Speckle velocimetry is investigated as a means of determining odometry data with potential for application on autonomous robotic vehicles. The technique described here relies on the integration of translation measurements made by normalized cross-correlation of speckle patterns to determine the change in position over time. The use of objective (non-imaged) speckle offers a number of advantages over subjective (imaged) speckle, such as a reduction in the number of optical components, reduced modulation of speckles at the edges of the image, and improved light efficiency. The influence of the source/detector configuration on the speckle translation to vehicle translation scaling factor for objective speckle is investigated using a computer model and verified experimentally. Experimental measurements are presented at velocities up to 80 mms=1 which show accuracy better than 0.4%.

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