Title
OW-LOAM: Observation-Weighted LiDAR Odometry and Mapping
Abstract
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is essential for robots, especially in unfamiliar indoor environments where other localization methods such as GNSS, UWB are unavailable. LOAM, as a state-of-the-art LiDAR SLAM method, works by extracting corner and surf points from raw point clouds and matching them with accumulated maps. However, the bisquare weight it uses for each observation is derived from the observation residual, which cannot reflect the actual observation quality and is of little help in improving the system accuracy. In this paper, we propose a novel method termed OW-LOAM, which takes the difference in the observation qualities into account by replacing the bisquare weight in LOAM with the inverse of the estimated variance of the observation noise based on Bayesian estimation theory. We conduct a series of experiments in various indoor environments of different scales, and the results show that the proposed OW-LOAM outperforms the original LOAM in both accuracy and robustness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/IPIN54987.2022.9918105
2022 IEEE 12th International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
indoor localization and mapping,LiDAR SLAM
Conference
2162-7347
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-6219-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhuo Zhang100.34
Zheng Yao24915.33
Mingquan Lu312230.09