Title
A comparison of SLAM algorithms based on a graph of relations
Abstract
In this paper, we address the problem of creating an objective benchmark for comparing SLAM approaches. We propose a framework for analyzing the results of SLAM approaches based on a metric for measuring the error of the corrected trajectory. The metric uses only relative relations between poses and does not rely on a global reference frame. The idea is related to graph-based SLAM approaches in the sense that it considers the energy needed to deform the trajectory estimated by a SLAM approach to the ground truth trajectory. Our method enables us to compare SLAM approaches that use different estimation techniques or different sensor modalities since all computations are made based on the corrected trajectory of the robot. We provide sets of relative relations needed to compute our metric for an extensive set of datasets frequently used in the SLAM community. The relations have been obtained by manually matching laser-range observations. We believe that our benchmarking framework allows the user an easy analysis and objective comparisons between different SLAM approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/IROS.2009.5354691
IROS
Keywords
Field
DocType
graph-based slam approach,relative relation,different slam approach,different estimation technique,slam community,corrected trajectory,slam approach,different sensor modality,metric use,ground truth trajectory,reference frame,benchmark testing,ground truth,trajectory,simultaneous localization and mapping,robotics,estimation theory,data mining
Reference frame,Computer vision,Computer science,Ground truth,Artificial intelligence,Estimation theory,Simultaneous localization and mapping,Robot,Machine learning,Benchmark (computing),Trajectory,Robotics
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
37
2.38
20
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
W Burgard1144381393.44
Cyrill Stachniss23975224.13
Giorgio Grisetti32362130.91
Bastian Steder441221.66
Rainer Kümmerle575336.34
Christian Dornhege627122.94
Michael Ruhnke722115.98
Alexander Kleiner857746.04
Juan Domingo93319258.54