Differences between Kinect and structured lighting sensor in robot navigation

Nowadays, autonomous navigation is getting more and more attention. The mobile robots need to have map of the close environment. The paper presents how can collect information about the environment for robot navigation. The sensors and the navigation system are installed on a mobile equipment platform. After this the article shows the different measurement systems, the generating virtual depth map and the navigation algorithm. At the end the Kinect sensor is compared with a sensor based on structured light.