Simultaneous Calibration of Action and Sensor Models on a Mobile Robot

This paper presents a technique for the Simultaneous Calibration of Action and Sensor Models (SCASM) on a mobile robot. While previous approaches to calibration make use of an independent source of feedback, SCASM is unsupervised, in that it does not receive any well-calibrated feedback about its location. Starting with only an inaccurate action model, it learns accurate relative action and sensor models. Furthermore, SCASM is fully autonomous, in that it operates with no human supervision. SCASM is fully implemented and tested on a Sony Aibo ERS-7 robot.