Title
6D SLAM - 3D mapping outdoor environments
Abstract
6D SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) or 6D concurrent localization and mapping of mobile robots considers six dimensions for the robot pose, namely, the x, y, and z coordinates and the roll, yaw, and pitch angles. Robot motion and localization on natural surfaces, e.g., driving outdoor with a mobile robot, must regard these degrees of freedom. This paper presents a robotic mapping method based on locally consistent 3D laser range scans. Iterative Closest Point scan matching, combined with a heuristic for closed loop detection and a global relaxation method, results in a highly precise mapping system. A new strategy for fast data association, cached kd-tree search, leads to feasible computing times. With no ground-truth data available for outdoor environments, point relations in maps are compared to numerical relations in uncalibrated aerial images in order to assess the metric validity of the resulting 3D maps. (c) 2007 wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1002/rob.20209
JOURNAL OF FIELD ROBOTICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile robot,degree of freedom,aerial photograph,ground truth
Computer vision,Heuristic,Simulation,Cache,Relaxation (iterative method),Robotic mapping,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Simultaneous localization and mapping,Robot,Mobile robot,Iterative closest point
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
24
8-9
1556-4959
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
174
8.47
30
Authors
4
Search Limit
100174
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andreas Nüchter1134190.03
Kai Lingemann255535.98
Joachim Hertzberg31571142.29
Hartmut Surmann469950.40