Title
New framework for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: Multi map SLAM.
Abstract
The main contribution of this paper arises from the development of a new framework, which has its inspiration in the mechanics of human navigation, for solving the problem of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). The proposed framework has specific relevance to vision based SLAM, in particular, small baseline stereo vision based SLAM and addresses several key issues relevant to the particular sensor domain. Firstly, as observed in the authors' earlier work, the particular sensing device has a highly nonlinear observation model resulting in inconsistent state estimations when standard recursive estimators such as the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) or the Unscented variants are used. Secondly, vision based approaches tend to have issues related to large feature density, narrow field of view and the potential requirement of maintaining large databases for vision based data association techniques. The proposed Multi Map SLAM solution addresses the filter inconsistency issue by formulating the SLAM problem as a nonlinear batch optimization. Feature management is addressed through a two tier map representation. The two maps have unique attributes assigned to them. The Global Map (GM) is a compact global representation of the robots environment and the Local Map (LM) is exclusively used for low-level navigation between local points in the robot's navigation horizon.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543483
ICRA
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile robots,stereo vision,extended kalman filter,navigation,simultaneous localization and mapping,kalman filters,field of view
Computer vision,Extended Kalman filter,Global Map,Stereopsis,Control theory,Kalman filter,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Robot,Simultaneous localization and mapping,Mobile robot,Recursion
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2008
1
1050-4729 E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-1647-9
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-1647-9
3
0.45
References 
Authors
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Damith Chandana Herath1174.04
Sarath Kodagoda238833.46
Gamini Dissanayake32226256.36