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State estimation is of crucial importance to mobile robotics since it determines in a great measure its ability to model the world from noisy observations. In order to quantitatively evaluate state-estimation methods, the availability of ground-truth data is essential since it provides a target that the result of the state-estimation methods should approximate. Most of the reported ground-truth systems require a complex assembly which limit their applicability and make their set-up long and complicated. Furthermore, they often require a long calibration procedure. Additionally, they do not present measures of their accuracy. This paper proposes a portable laser-based ground-truth system. The proposed system can be easily ported from one environment to other and requires almost no calibration. Quantitative results are presented with the purpose of encouraging future comparisons among different ground-truth systems. The presented method has shown to be accurate enough to evaluate state-estimation methods and works in real time.
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Marchant, R., Guerrero, P., Ruiz-del-Solar, J. (2012). A Portable Ground-Truth System Based on a Laser Sensor. In: Röfer, T., Mayer, N.M., Savage, J., Saranlı, U. (eds) RoboCup 2011: Robot Soccer World Cup XV. RoboCup 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7416. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32060-6_20
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