Title
Large scale graph-based SLAM using aerial images as prior information
Abstract
The problem of learning a map with a mobile robot has been intensively studied in the past and is usually referred to as the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. However, most existing solutions to the SLAM problem learn the maps from scratch and have no means for incorporating prior information. In this paper, we present a novel SLAM approach that achieves global consistency by utilizing publicly accessible aerial photographs as prior information. It inserts correspondences found between stereo and three-dimensional range data and the aerial images as constraints into a graph-based formulation of the SLAM problem. We evaluate our algorithm based on large real-world datasets acquired even in mixed in- and outdoor environments by comparing the global accuracy with state-of-the-art SLAM approaches and GPS. The experimental results demonstrate that the maps acquired with our method show increased global consistency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/s10514-010-9204-1
Auton. Robots
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Mapping,Localization,Aerial images
Conference
30
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0929-5593
23
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.00
19
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rainer Kümmerle175336.34
Bastian Steder241221.66
Christian Dornhege327122.94
Alexander Kleiner457746.04
Giorgio Grisetti52362130.91
W Burgard6144381393.44