Have I been here before? Learning to Close the Loop with LiDAR Data in Graph-Based SLAM

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2021 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM)
Subtitle of host publicationJuly 12-16, 2021, Delft, The Netherlands
Pages504-510
Number of pages7
ISBN (electronic)9781665441391
Publication statusPublished - 11 Mar 2021
Event2021 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics - Delft, Netherlands
Duration: 12 Jul 202116 Jul 2021

Abstract

This work presents an extension of graph-based SLAM methods to exploit the potential of 3D laser scans for loop detection. Every high-dimensional point cloud is replaced by a compact global descriptor, whereby a trained detector decides whether a loop exists. Searching for loops is performed locally in a variable space to consider the odometry drift. Since closing a wrong loop has fatal consequences, an extensive verification is performed before acceptance. The proposed algorithm is implemented as an extension of the widely used state-of-the-art library RTAB-Map, and several experiments show the improvement: During SLAM with a mobile service robot in changing indoor and outdoor campus environments, our approach improves RTAB-Map regarding total number of closed loops. Especially in the presence of significant environmental changes, which typically lead to failure, localization becomes possible by our extension. Experiments with a car in traffic (KITTI benchmark) show the general applicability of our approach. These results are comparable to the state-of-the-art LiDAR method LOAM. The developed ROS package is freely available.

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Have I been here before? Learning to Close the Loop with LiDAR Data in Graph-Based SLAM. / Habich, Tim-Lukas; Stuede, Marvin; Labbé, Mathieu et al.
Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM): July 12-16, 2021, Delft, The Netherlands. 2021. p. 504-510.

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Habich, T-L, Stuede, M, Labbé, M & Spindeldreier, S 2021, Have I been here before? Learning to Close the Loop with LiDAR Data in Graph-Based SLAM. in Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM): July 12-16, 2021, Delft, The Netherlands. pp. 504-510, 2021 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Delft, Netherlands, 12 Jul 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/AIM46487.2021.9517565
Habich, T.-L., Stuede, M., Labbé, M., & Spindeldreier, S. (2021). Have I been here before? Learning to Close the Loop with LiDAR Data in Graph-Based SLAM. In Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM): July 12-16, 2021, Delft, The Netherlands (pp. 504-510) https://doi.org/10.1109/AIM46487.2021.9517565
Habich TL, Stuede M, Labbé M, Spindeldreier S. Have I been here before? Learning to Close the Loop with LiDAR Data in Graph-Based SLAM. In Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM): July 12-16, 2021, Delft, The Netherlands. 2021. p. 504-510 doi: 10.1109/AIM46487.2021.9517565
Habich, Tim-Lukas ; Stuede, Marvin ; Labbé, Mathieu et al. / Have I been here before? Learning to Close the Loop with LiDAR Data in Graph-Based SLAM. Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM): July 12-16, 2021, Delft, The Netherlands. 2021. pp. 504-510
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