Simultaneous localization and mapping(SLAM)is widely used in many robot applications to acquire the unknown environment's map and the robots location.Graph-based SLAM is demonstrated to be effective in large-scale...Simultaneous localization and mapping(SLAM)is widely used in many robot applications to acquire the unknown environment's map and the robots location.Graph-based SLAM is demonstrated to be effective in large-scale scenarios,and it intuitively performs the SLAM as a pose graph.But because of the high data overlap rate,traditional graph-based SLAM is not efficient in some respects,such as real time performance and memory usage.To reduce1 data overlap rate,a graph-based SLAM with distributed submap strategy(DSS)is presented.In its front-end,submap based scan matching is processed and loop closing detection is conducted.Moreover in its back-end,pose graph is updated for global optimization and submap merging.From a series of experiments,it is demonstrated that graph-based SLAM with DSS reduces 51.79%data overlap rate,decreases 39.70%runtime and 24.60%memory usage.The advantages over other low overlap rate method is also proved in runtime,memory usage,accuracy and robustness performance.展开更多
基金the Project Fund for Key Discipline of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission(No.J50104)the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China(No.2017YFB0403500)。
文摘Simultaneous localization and mapping(SLAM)is widely used in many robot applications to acquire the unknown environment's map and the robots location.Graph-based SLAM is demonstrated to be effective in large-scale scenarios,and it intuitively performs the SLAM as a pose graph.But because of the high data overlap rate,traditional graph-based SLAM is not efficient in some respects,such as real time performance and memory usage.To reduce1 data overlap rate,a graph-based SLAM with distributed submap strategy(DSS)is presented.In its front-end,submap based scan matching is processed and loop closing detection is conducted.Moreover in its back-end,pose graph is updated for global optimization and submap merging.From a series of experiments,it is demonstrated that graph-based SLAM with DSS reduces 51.79%data overlap rate,decreases 39.70%runtime and 24.60%memory usage.The advantages over other low overlap rate method is also proved in runtime,memory usage,accuracy and robustness performance.