基于协助校正方法的多机器人主动同时定位与建图

协作策略是多机器人主动同时定位与建图(SLAM)的关键。文中提出一种多机器人相互校正的协作策略, 称为协助校正。 该方法通过优化机器人对陆标的观测来提高定位与建图的精度, 共包括弱协助校正和强协助校正两种模式。 前者是一种间接的协助模式, 可应用于所有机器人自身定位均不准确的情形。 后者是一种直接的协助模式, 由自身定位精度较高的机器人主动校正其它机器人及相应陆标。 文中将这两种协助校正模式利用状态机统一到多机器人主动SLAM应用中。在仿真实验中将协助校正与其它多机器人主动SLAM方法进行对比以验证其精度优势, 并与单机器人主动SLAM对比以验证其导航代价极低的优势。最后在两台Poineer3-DX移动机器人上进行真实环境实验,实验结果证实协助校正方法可在实际应用中有效提高多机器人主动SLAM的探索效率和精度。     

面向地图构建的移动机器人局部路径自主规划

移动机器人在未知场景中规划路径以自主完成定位与地图构建是机器人领域的一个重要研究课题.本文阐述了一种利用实时构建的信息熵地图动态生成机器人的局部探索路径,并综合转向约束和避障约束设计了一种基于模糊评价方法的方向选择策略跟踪生成的局部路径并进行环境构图.与现有方法相比,本文方法能够根据环境动态地生成平滑连续的局部探索路径,并能引导机器人进行障碍物躲避和完成自主构图.实验结果表明相较对比方法,本文方法的探索路程最短,观测覆盖度最高,同时整个自主构图过程所需的时间也更短.     

基于粒子滤波的移动机器人SLAM改进算法

针对未知环境中移动机器人同时定位和地图创建（Simultaneous Localization and Map Building,SLAM）由于机器人位姿和环境地图都不确定导致定位和地图创建变得更加复杂,提出一种局部最优（全局次优）参数法,即通过局部最优的位姿创建局部最优的环境地图,再通过局部最优的环境地图寻求局部最优的位姿,如此交替进行,直到得到全局确定性的位姿和确定性的环境地图。实验结果表明,同标准的基于粒子滤波的SLAM 算法（Particle Filtering-SLAM,PF-SLAM）比较,改进的算法提高了机器人SLAM过程中定位的准确度和地图创建的精确度,为机器人在未知的室外大环境同时定位和地图创建提供新的方法。     

Cross-spectral visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with sensor handover

In this work, we examine the classic problem of robot navigation via visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), but introducing the concept of dual optical and thermal (cross-spectral) sensing with the addition of sensor handover from one to the other. In our approach we use a novel combination of two primary sensors: co-registered optical and thermal cameras. Mobile robot navigation is driven by two simultaneous camera images from the environment over which feature points are extracted and matched between successive frames. A bearing-only visual SLAM approach is then implemented using successive feature point observations to identify and track environment landmarks using an extended Kalman filter (EKF). Six-degree-of-freedom mobile robot and environment landmark positions are managed by the EKF approach illustrated using optical, thermal and combined optical/thermal features in addition to handover from one sensor to another. Sensor handover is primarily targeted at a continuous SLAM operation during varying illumination conditions (e.g., changing from night to day). The final methodology is tested in outdoor environments with variation in the light conditions and robot trajectories producing results that illustrate that the additional use of a thermal sensor improves the accuracy of landmark detection and that the sensor handover is viable for solving the SLAM problem using this sensor combination.     

移动机器人即时定位与地图创建问题研究

基于环境特征的移动机器人即时定位与地图创建是机器人领域的开放性课题.本文从环境特征提取、定位与地图创建、数据相关三个方面对移动机器人即时定位与地图创建问题进行了综述.对移动机器人定位问题作了概述.探讨了室内环境下特征提取方法.详细地论述了定位与地图创建中面临的主要问题及其解决方法;阐述了数据相关问题的基本思想.最后,根据近期文献指出了该领域今后的研究方向.􀁱 􀁽     

面向观测融合和吸引因子的多机器人主动SLAM

针对未知环境下多机器人主动SLAM(simultaneous localization and mapping)存在不能完全遍历环境、定位精度不理想等问题,本文基于EKF-SLAM(extended Kalman filter-simultaneous localization and mapping)算法提出一种多机器人主动SLAM算法。通过引入吸引因子,增强多机器人系统之间的交流,提升机器人自身定位精度与环境建图精度,同时又引导多机器人团队进行探索环境。当同一地标被多个机器人观测到,采用凸组合融合方法融合各个机器人对地标的估计,从而降低被估计地标的不确定度。仿真结果表明,所提算法能够对环境进行覆盖遍历,提升对地标估计的定位精度。     

基于局部子地图方法的多机器人主动同时定位与地图创建

研究了多机器人在未知环境下以主动的方式协作完成同时定位与地图创建（SLAM）的问题．引入局部子地图方法,由每个机器人建立自身周围局部区域的子地图,使多个机器人之间的地图创建相互独立,从而对全局环境的SLAM问题进行分解．而每个机器人在建立局部子地图时将主动SLAM问题转化为多目标优化问题;机器人选取最优的控制输入,使定位与地图创建的准确性、信息增益以及多机器人之间的协调关系得到综合优化．最后,通过扩展的卡尔曼滤波器（EKF）对子地图进行融合得到全局地图．仿真结果验证了该方法的有效性．     

机器人同时定位与地图构建技术研究*

移动机器人同时定位与地图创建是实现未知环境下机器人自主导航的关键性技术,具有广泛的应用前景,也是目前机器人研究的热门课题之一。针对国内外近年来关于移动机器人同时定位与地图创建的研究工作进行了总结和分析,重点介绍了机器人的地图创建方法类别、基于概率理论的自主定位方法、同时定位与地图创建的问题描述及研究方法等方面的发展现状及存在的不足。     

基于EKF的全景视觉机器人SLAM算法

研究全景视觉机器人同时定位和地图创建（SLAM）问题。针对普通视觉视野狭窄, 对路标的连续跟踪和定位能力差的问题, 提出了一种基于改进的扩展卡尔曼滤波（EKF）算法的全景视觉机器人SLAM方法, 用全景视觉得到机器人周围的环境信息, 然后从这些信息中提取出环境特征, 定位出路标位置, 进而通过EKF算法同步更新机器人位姿和地图库。仿真实验和实体机器人实验结果验证了该算法的准确性和有效性, 且全景视觉比普通视觉定位精度更高。     

SLAM in Indoor Environments using Omni-directional Vertical and Horizontal Line Features

An autonomous mobile robot must have the ability to navigate in an unknown environment. The simultaneous localization and map building (SLAM) problem have relation to this autonomous ability. Vision sensors are attractive equipment for an autonomous mobile robot because they are information-rich and rarely have restrictions on various applications. However, many vision based SLAM methods using a general pin-hole camera suffer from variation in illumination and occlusion, because they mostly extract corner points for the feature map. Moreover, due to the narrow field of view of the pin-hole camera, they are not adequate for a high speed camera motion. To solve these problems, this paper presents a new SLAM method which uses vertical lines extracted from an omni-directional camera image and horizontal lines from the range sensor data. Due to the large field of view of the omni-directional camera, features remain in the image for enough time to estimate the pose of the robot and the features more accurately. Furthermore, since the proposed SLAM does not use corner points but the lines as the features, it reduces the effect of illumination and partial occlusion. Moreover, we use not only the lines at corners of wall but also many other vertical lines at doors, columns and the information panels on the wall which cannot be extracted by a range sensor. Finally, since we use the horizontal lines to estimate the positions of the vertical line features, we do not require any camera calibration. Experimental work based on MORIS, our mobile robot test bed, moving at a human’s pace in the real indoor environment verifies the efficacy of this approach.     

基于MIEKF的移动机器人同时定位与地图构建研究*

由于移动机器人处在未知并且不确定的环境中,主要采用基于概率的方法对同时定位与地图构建(SLAM)进行描述。本文建立了SLAM问题的概率表示模型,并对在解决SLAM问题中用最常用的扩展卡尔曼滤波(EKF)算法以及迭代扩展卡尔曼滤波(IEKF)算法进行描述。本文针对两种算法的缺陷和不足,将应用于跟踪领域的修正迭代扩展卡尔曼滤波算法(MIEKF)与SLAM思想结合,提出了一种新的基于MIEKF的SLAM算法。通过基于点特征的SLAM实验验证了该算法的有效性。     

A Minimalistic Approach to Appearance-Based Visual SLAM

This paper presents a vision-based approach to simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in indoor/outdoor environments with minimalistic sensing and computational requirements. The approach is based on a graph representation of robot poses, using a relaxation algorithm to obtain a globally consistent map. Each link corresponds to a relative measurement of the spatial relation between the two nodes it connects. The links describe the likelihood distribution of the relative pose as a Gaussian distribution. To estimate the covariance matrix for links obtained from an omnidirectional vision sensor, a novel method is introduced based on the relative similarity of neighboring images. This new method does not require the determination of distances to image features using multiple-view geometry, for example. Combined indoor and outdoor experiments demonstrate that the approach can handle different environments (without modification of the parameters), and it can cope with violations of the “flat floor assumption” to some degree and scales well with increasing size of the environment, producing topologically correct and geometrically accurate maps at low computational cost. Further experiments demonstrate that the approach is also suitable for combining multiple overlapping maps, e.g., for solving the multirobot SLAM problem with unknown initial poses.      

Hybrid robot control and SLAM for persistent navigation and mapping

For a mobile robot to operate autonomously in real-world environments, it must have an effective control system and a navigation system capable of providing robust localization, path planning and path execution. In this paper we describe work investigating synergies between mapping and control systems. We have integrated development of a control system for navigating mobile robots and a robot SLAM system. The control system is hybrid in nature and tightly coupled with the SLAM system; it uses a combination of high and low level deliberative and reactive control processes to perform obstacle avoidance, exploration, global navigation and recharging, and draws upon the map learning and localization capabilities of the SLAM system. The effectiveness of this hybrid, multi-level approach was evaluated in the context of a delivery robot scenario. Over a period of two weeks the robot performed 1143 delivery tasks to 11 different locations with only one delivery failure (from which it recovered), travelled a total distance of more than 40 km, and recharged autonomously a total of 23 times. In this paper we describe the combined control and SLAM system and discuss insights gained from its successful application in a real-world context.     

基于视觉的同时定位与地图构建方法综述

基于视觉的自主导航与路径规划是移动机器人研究的关键技术,对基于视觉的计算机导航与同时定位及地图构建（SLAM）方法近三十年的发展进行了总结和展望。将视觉导航分为室内导航和室外导航,并详细阐述了每一种子类型的特点和方法。对于室内视觉导航,列举了经典导航模型和技术方法,探讨了解决SLAM问题的最新进展：HTM-SLAM算法和基于特征的算法;对室外视觉导航,阐述了国际国内目前的研究动态。     

基于扫描匹配的室外环境SLAM 方法

针对室外环境中的机器人“绑架”问题,提出了基于地图匹配的SLAM方法．该方法舍弃了机器人里程计信息, 只利用局部地图和全局地图的图形相关性进行机器人定位．方法的核心是多重估计数据关联,并将奇异值分解应用到机器人位姿计算中．利用Victoria Park数据集将本算法与基于扩展卡尔曼滤波器的方法进行比较,实验结果证明了本文提出的算法的有效性．     

A Nonlinear Set Membership Approach for the Localization and Map Building of Underwater Robots

This paper proposes a set membership method based on interval analysis to solve the simultaneous localization and map building (SLAM) problem. The principle of the approach is to cast the SLAM problem into a constraint satisfaction problem for which interval propagation algorithms are particularly powerful. The resulting propagation method is illustrated on the localization and map building of an actual underwater robot.      

Range-only SLAM with indistinguishable landmarks; a constraint programming approach

This paper deals with the simultaneous localization and mapping problem (SLAM) for a robot. The robot has to build a map of its environment while localizing itself using a partially built map. It is assumed that (i) the map is made of point landmarks, (ii) the landmarks are indistinguishable, (iii) the only exteroceptive measurements correspond to the distance between the robot and the landmarks. This paper shows that SLAM can be cast into a constraint network the variables of which being trajectories, digraphs and subsets of \(\mathbb {R}^{n}.\) Then, we show how constraint propagation can be extended to deal with such generalized constraint networks. As a result, due to the redundancy of measurements of SLAM, we demonstrate that a constraint-based approach provides an efficient backtrack-free algorithm able to solve our SLAM problem in a guaranteed way.     

On actively closing loops in grid-based FastSLAM

Acquiring models of the environment belongs to the fundamental tasks of mobile robots. In the past, several researchers have focused on the problem of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Classical SLAM approaches are passive in the sense that they only process the perceived sensor data and do not influence the motion of the mobile robot. In this paper, we present a novel integrated approach that combines autonomous exploration with simultaneous localization and mapping. Our method uses a grid-based version of the FastSLAM algorithm and considers at each point in time actions to actively close loops during exploration. By re-entering already visited areas, the robot reduces its localization error and in this way learns more accurate maps. Experimental results presented in this paper illustrate the advantage of our method over previous approaches that lack the ability to actively close loops.     

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．     

视觉同时定位与地图创建综述

同时定位与地图创建 （simultaneous localization and mapping，SLAM）自1986年提出以来一直是机器人领域的热点问题，被认为是实现真正全自主移动机器人的关键。其目的是让机器人在未知环境下实现自身定位同时创建出环境地图。视觉SLAM （visual simultaneous localization and mapping，VSLAM）是仅用相机作为传感器的定位与制图。随着计算机视觉和机器人技术的发展，VSLAM已成为无人系统领域的研究焦点。本文对VSLAM的最新研究现状进行总结，阐述了VSLAM中的主要问题，分别介绍了VSLAM基于滤波和图优化的实现方法，并探讨了VSLAM 的研究与发展方向。