Title
Robust Pose-Graph Slam Using Absolute Orientation Sensing
Abstract
It is known that in the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem when a robot's orientation is known, an estimation of the history of its poses can be formulated as a standard linear least squares problem. In this letter, we exploit this property of SLAM to develop a robust pose-graph SLAM framework that uses absolute orientation sensing. Our contribution are as follows: 1) we show that absolute orientation can be estimated using local structural cues; and 2) we develop a method to incorporate absolute orientation measurements in both the front and back-end of pose-graph SLAM. We also demonstrate our approach through extensive simulations and a physical real-world demonstration along with comparisons against existing state-of-the-art solvers that do not use absolute orientation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/LRA.2019.2893436
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
Keywords
Field
DocType
SLAM, localization, mapping, range sensing, visual-based navigation
Graph,Control theory,Algorithm,Absolute orientation,Engineering,Simultaneous localization and mapping,Robot,Linear least squares
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
4
2
2377-3766
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
saurav agarwal182.56
Karthikeya S. Parunandi201.69
S. Chakravorty312725.20