Title
Cloud-Based Collaborative 3D Mapping in Real-Time With Low-Cost Robots
Abstract
This paper presents an architecture, protocol, and parallel algorithms for collaborative 3D mapping in the cloud with low-cost robots. The robots run a dense visual odometry algorithm on a smartphone-class processor. Key-frames from the visual odometry are sent to the cloud for parallel optimization and merging with maps produced by other robots. After optimization the cloud pushes the updated poses of the local key-frames back to the robots. All processes are managed by Rapyuta, a cloud robotics framework that runs in a commercial data center. This paper includes qualitative visualization of collaboratively built maps, as well as quantitative evaluation of localization accuracy, bandwidth usage, processing speeds, and map storage.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TASE.2015.2408456
IEEE T. Automation Science and Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Robot sensing systems,Visualization,Optimization,Robot kinematics,Cloning,Three-dimensional displays
Visual odometry,Computer science,Visualization,Parallel algorithm,Real-time computing,Control engineering,Robot,Data center,Cloud robotics,Embedded system,Occupancy grid mapping,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
2
1545-5955
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.53
18
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gajamohan Mohanarajah170.53
Vladyslav C. Usenko2528.53
Mayank Singh370.53
Raffaello D'andrea41592162.96
Markus Waibel570.53