结构化环境下基于结构单元软编码的3维激光雷达点云描述子

在同时定位与地图构建（SLAM）系统中,基于3维激光雷达点云数据的闭环检测由于描述子计算困难而极具挑战．为此,本文提出一种结构化环境下可用于闭环检测的基于结构单元软编码的新型3维激光雷达点云描述子．针对3维激光雷达点云的稀疏性和独立性导致的3维空间线段提取困难的问题,首先通过几何滤波的方法提取3维空间中垂直于地面的线段,用于保留3维空间的结构信息;然后,基于线段的空间几何关系构建结构单元集合,并通过软编码技术计算特征向量,作为3维激光雷达点云的描述子;最后,通过两帧点云描述子的匹配实现闭环检测．在KITTI公开数据集和自采数据集上的对比实验,验证了本文方法在时效性和鲁棒性等方面均优于主流的3维激光闭环检测方法．     

基于激光测距的环境地图动态创建技术研究

本文主要研究完全未知结构化环境下的移动机器人二维地图构建与标图技术。本文以激光测距仪为环境探测传感器,采用几何特征法创建地图。对局部地图创建中的区域分割方法进行了改进,提出了基于线性阈值法的区域分割方法;给出了基于相关线段和线段缓冲区的全局地图创建方法。实验结果表明：本方法实现了基于实时的激光测距数据的局部地图动态创建和全局地图的实时更新,算法有效且可行。     

基于粒子滤波和点线相合的未知环境地图构建方法

针对粒子滤波处理未知环境地图构建时存在存储空间负荷高、计算量大的问题, 本文使用线段特征描述环境信息, 将点线相合的增量式地图构建方法引入粒子滤波中. 在每个粒子中保存对已构建线段特征地图的假设; 使用点线相合的位姿估计算法将观测信息引入重要性函数, 确定采样空间; 通过观测信息与已构建线段特征地图之间的相合关系更新粒子权重; 最后通过选择性重采样去除因匹配不当和误差积累产生的错误地图. 分析表明, 该算法的复杂度较低. 在真实传感器数据上的实验结果验证了该算法构建室内环境地图的有效性和鲁棒性. 算法所需存储空间和粒子数远小于现有粒子滤波地图构建方法.     

基于局部子图匹配的SLAM 方法

针对现有的SLAM 解决方法在机器人被“绑架”时失效的问题,提出了基于局部子图匹配的方法．该 方法对现有的SLAM 解决构架进行了改进,提出交点最优匹配的特征相关算法,并且将奇异值分解方法引入机器人 定位．最后,在结构化环境下将本方法和基于扩展卡尔曼滤波器的方法进行比较,讨论了基于局部子图匹配的方法 在结构化环境中解决机器人“绑架”问题的有效性和可行性．     

RTAB‐Map as an open‐source lidar and visual simultaneous localization and mapping library for large‐scale and long‐term online operation

Distributed as an open‐source library since 2013, real‐time appearance‐based mapping (RTAB‐Map) started as an appearance‐based loop closure detection approach with memory management to deal with large‐scale and long‐term online operation. It then grew to implement simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) on various robots and mobile platforms. As each application brings its own set of constraints on sensors, processing capabilities, and locomotion, it raises the question of which SLAM approach is the most appropriate to use in terms of cost, accuracy, computation power, and ease of integration. Since most of SLAM approaches are either visual‐ or lidar‐based, comparison is difficult. Therefore, we decided to extend RTAB‐Map to support both visual and lidar SLAM, providing in one package a tool allowing users to implement and compare a variety of 3D and 2D solutions for a wide range of applications with different robots and sensors. This paper presents this extended version of RTAB‐Map and its use in comparing, both quantitatively and qualitatively, a large selection of popular real‐world datasets (e.g., KITTI, EuRoC, TUM RGB‐D, MIT Stata Center on PR2 robot), outlining strengths, and limitations of visual and lidar SLAM configurations from a practical perspective for autonomous navigation applications.     

Intelligence evolution for service robot: An ADRC perspective

The strategy of active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) and its applications in intelligence evolution for service robot are summarized. It is also shown that the philosophy of ADRC is consistent with the essential characteristics of intelligence evolution. Most importantly, we concentrate on five core issues which will be encountered when applying ADRC to deal with intelligence evolution for service robot, that is, how to eliminate the impact of unknown composite disturbances, how to handle the nonholonomic constraints in uncalibrated visual servoing, how to realize eye hand torque coordination, how to deal with the disturbance in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), and how to reject the imperfections induced by network in human robot interaction. The main purpose of this paper is to clarify the challenges encountered on intelligence evolution for service robot when one applies ADRC to, hoping that more and more researchers can give some suggestions or work together to deal with these problems, and flourishing results of ADRC from both theory and applications.     

基于激光测距仪全局匹配扫描的SLAM算法研究

针对传统的SLAM(Simultaneous Localization and Mapping)算法构建地图时容易受环境因素和外界条件的的影响,在非线性系统状态下误差修正能力不足,且当机器人位姿都处于未知状态时,移动机器人位姿获取不精确,地图构建SLAM技术特征量的获取比较繁琐、不准确等问题。以电力巡检机器人为平台,研究了基于全局匹配的扫描算法,摒弃传统的栅格地图模型的插值方法,采用双线性滤波的插值方法,保证子栅格单元的精确性,估算栅格占用函数的概率和导数。最后采用此算法解决了SLAM地图构建的问题,并分别在室内室外环境进行实验。实验结果表明：基于激光测距仪的全局匹配扫描的SALM算法,在室内室外两种不同环境下,不受复杂背景的影响,准确地进行机器人位姿定位,以及环境地图的构建     

A review of visual inertial odometry from filtering and optimisation perspectives

Visual inertial odometry (VIO) is a technique to estimate the change of a mobile platform in position and orientation overtime using the measurements from on-board cameras and IMU sensor. Recently, VIO attracts significant attentions from large number of researchers and is gaining the popularity in various potential applications due to the miniaturisation in size and low cost in price of two sensing modularities. However, it is very challenging in both of technical development and engineering implementation when accuracy, real-time performance, robustness and operation scale are taken into consideration. This survey is to report the state of the art VIO techniques from the perspectives of filtering and optimisation-based approaches, which are two dominated approaches adopted in the research area. To do so, various representations of 3D rigid motion body are illustrated. Then filtering-based approaches are reviewed, and followed by optimisation-based approaches. The links between these two approaches will be clarified via a framework of the Bayesian Maximum A Posterior. Other features, such as observability and self calibration, will be discussed.     

A solution to SLAM problems by simultaneous estimation of kinematic parameters including sensor mounting offset with an augmented UKF

Accurate localization is required for autonomous robots to navigate in cluttered environments safely. Therefore, Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) and Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF), which incorporate probabilistic concepts as localization methods, have been researched up to now. It should be noted, however, that the errors of kinematic parameters such as wheel diameter, tread, and mounting sensor offset are not enough considered in conventional works. We propose an Augmented UKF-SLAM (AUKF-SLAM), which is an extension of the UKF-SLAM and can estimate the kinematic parameters including a sensor mounting offset together with the localization and mapping. The UKF-SLAM and the AUKF-SLAM are compared through some simulations to show that the proposed AUKF-SLAM is more accurate than the UKF-SLAM. Furthermore, localization experiments with only odometry are conducted using a real robot. The experimental results show to demonstrate that the localization using kinematic parameters estimated by the AUKF-SLAM is more accurate than that using values measured by hand in advance. Through some experimental verifications in an elevator hall, cluttered rooms, and a long distance corridor, it is confirmed that the proposed AUKF-SLAM which simultaneously estimates the effective kinematic parameters largely contributes to the total accuracy improvement of SLAM.