Title
ClusterMap Building and Relocalization in Urban Environments for Unmanned Vehicles.
Abstract
Map building and map-based relocalization techniques are important for unmanned vehicles operating in urban environments. The existing approaches require expensive high-density laser range finders and suffer from relocalization problems in long-term applications. This study proposes a novel map format called the ClusterMap, on the basis of which an approach to achieving relocalization is developed. The ClusterMap is generated by segmenting the perceived point clouds into different point clusters and filtering out clusters belonging to dynamic objects. A location descriptor associated with each cluster is designed for differentiation. The relocalization in the global map is achieved by matching cluster descriptors between local and global maps. The solution does not require high-density point clouds and high-precision segmentation algorithms. In addition, it prevents the effects of environmental changes on illumination intensity, object appearance, and observation direction. A consistent ClusterMap without any scale problem is built by utilizing a 3D visual-LIDAR simultaneous localization and mapping solution by fusing LIDAR and visual information. Experiments on the KITTI dataset and our mobile vehicle illustrates the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19194252
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
relocalization,SLAM,Localization,Map Descriptor,LIDAR-based Map Building,ClusterMap
Computer vision,Cluster (physics),Market segmentation,Global Map,Segmentation,Filter (signal processing),Electronic engineering,Lidar,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Point cloud,Simultaneous localization and mapping
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
19
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhichen Pan110.35
Haoyao Chen218923.79
Silin Li310.35
Liu YH41540185.05