Analysis of in-transit range projection errors
There are at least two ways in which this can be wrong:
- If the ground is folded along the waypoint ray, there may be more than one
surface point that lies along the ray. We could check for there being more
than one possible range point along the ray in our current FOV, but this check
is not reliable, since we might fail to get range data for the actual waypoint
due to stereo matching limitations, or because the actual waypoint is not in
our FOV at all.
- If the ground is folded along our line of sight, then we might judge an
intervening obstacle as being sufficiently close to the waypoint ray. Our
ability to discriminate this case depends on the accuracy of the relative
position estimate between the waypoint base and our current location.
In either case, the projected waypoint may be arbitrarily far from the
actual waypoint.
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