RT Journal Article T1 Compact Modeling Technique for Outdoor Navigation A1 Castejón Sisamón, Cristina A1 Blanco Rojas, María Dolores A1 Moreno, Luis AB In this paper, a new methodology to build compact local maps in real time for outdoor robot navigation is presented. The environment information is obtained from a 3-D scanner laser. The navigation model, which is called traversable region model, is based on a Voronoi diagram technique, but adapted to large outdoor environments. The model obtained with this methodology allows a definition of safe trajectories that depend on the robot's capabilities and the terrain properties, and it will represent, in a topogeometric way, the environment as local and global maps. The application presented is validated in real outdoor environments with the robot called GOLIAT. PB Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) SN 1083-4427 YR 2008 FD 2008-01 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/9854 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/9854 LA eng NO 16 pages, 46 figures. NO This work was supported by the Spanish Government through the MICYT project DPI2003-01170. DS e-Archivo RD 19 may. 2024