Landslide hazards are one of the major natural hazards. It is difficult not only to get the integrated and accurate landslide datum but also to monitor and predict the landslide. This paper introduces a ground-based laser scanner application for the landslides monitoring and its experiment in Jingyang, Shaanxi province. The point cloud gained in the test region is processed by existing software...

Digitizing heritage monuments is a process of spatial data acquisition, geometry modelling, digital archiving and web-based representation. Moreover, there are several survey and digitizing techniques working and developing such as traditional manual methods, topographic methods, photogrammetric methods and scanning methods. The most popular on application and developing is 3D laser scanning te...

This paper develops methodology and technique for pose tracking of an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) using a laser scanner. A low-complexity and accurate pose-tracking EKF-based algorithm is proposed using a simple rectangular model and a 2-D laser scanner. By continuously updating the robot’s pose and matching the laser data with the environmental model, we find that the outliers can be filtere...

Obstacle avoidance is one of the most critical factors in the design of autonomous vehicles such as mobile robots. One of the major challenges in designing intelligent vehicles capable of autonomous travel on highways is reliable obstacle avoidance. Obstacle avoidance may be divided into two parts, obstacle detection and avoidance control. Numerous methods for obstacle avoidance have been sugge...

Active safety vehicle devices are getting more attention recently. To prevent traffic accidents, the environment in front and even around the vehicle must be checked and monitored. In the present applications, mainly camera and radar based systems are used as sensing devices. Laser scanner, one of the sensing devices, has the advantage of obtaining accurate measurement of the distance and the g...