Friday Jun, 21 2013, 11:30, IDSIA Meeting Room Armando Pesenti Gritti and Oscar Tarabini, two master students from Politecnico di Milano, will present a brief 20min talk on using a Kinect on a mobile robot to detect obstacles. Title Obstacle detection using an RGB-D sensor Abstract: Any autonomous mobile robot must be able to detect and avoid obstacles that it might encounter. Traditionally, this problem has been solved using laser or sonar based depth scanners or cameras. However, recently, the introduction of cheap RGB-D sensors has opened new areas of research in computer vision, and this same device can be used for obstacle detection. The goal of this project is to implement an obstacle detection system using only RGB-D data, able to generate a local map exploitable by a motion planning algorithm for a robot moving on the floor in an indoor environment.