EFFICIENT TOUR PLANNING FOR A MEASUREMENT VEHICLE BY COMBINING NEXT BEST VIEW AND TRAVELING SALESMAN

Autor: J. Gehrung, M. Hebel, M. Arens, U. Stilla
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol XLIII-B2-2021, Pp 729-736 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1682-1750
2194-9034
DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B2-2021-729-2021
Popis: Path planning for a measuring vehicle requires solving two popular problems from computer science, namely the search for the optimal tour and the search for the optimal viewpoint. Combining both problems results in a new variation of the Traveling Salesman Problem, which we refer to as the Explorational Traveling Salesman Problem. The solution to this problem is the optimal tour with a minimum of observations. In this paper, we formulate the basic problem, discuss it in context of the existing literature and present an iterative solution algorithm. We demonstrate how the method can be applied directly to LiDAR data using an occupancy grid. The ability of our algorithm to generate suitably efficient tours is verified based on two synthetic benchmark datasets, utilizing a ground truth determined by an exhaustive search.
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