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Past, Present, and Future of Simultaneous Localization And Mapping: Towards the Robust-Perception Age
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)consists in the concurrent
construction of a model of the environment (the map), and the estimation of the
state of the robot moving within it. The SLAM community has made astonishing
progress over the last 30 years, enabling large-scale real-world applications,
and witnessing a steady transition of this technology to industry. We survey
the current state of SLAM. We start by presenting what is now the de-facto
standard formulation for SLAM. We then review related work, covering a broad
set of topics including robustness and scalability in long-term mapping, metric
and semantic representations for mapping, theoretical performance guarantees,
active SLAM and exploration, and other new frontiers. This paper simultaneously
serves as a position paper and tutorial to those who are users of SLAM. By
looking at the published research with a critical eye, we delineate open
challenges and new research issues, that still deserve careful scientific
investigation. The paper also contains the authors' take on two questions that
often animate discussions during robotics conferences: Do robots need SLAM? and
Is SLAM solved
Volume-based Semantic Labeling with Signed Distance Functions
Research works on the two topics of Semantic Segmentation and SLAM
(Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) have been following separate tracks.
Here, we link them quite tightly by delineating a category label fusion
technique that allows for embedding semantic information into the dense map
created by a volume-based SLAM algorithm such as KinectFusion. Accordingly, our
approach is the first to provide a semantically labeled dense reconstruction of
the environment from a stream of RGB-D images. We validate our proposal using a
publicly available semantically annotated RGB-D dataset and a) employing ground
truth labels, b) corrupting such annotations with synthetic noise, c) deploying
a state of the art semantic segmentation algorithm based on Convolutional
Neural Networks.Comment: Submitted to PSIVT201
Distributed 3D TSDF Manifold Mapping for Multi-Robot Systems
International audienceThis paper presents a new method to perform collaborative real-time dense 3D mapping in a distributed way for a multi-robot system. This method associates a Truncated Signed Distance Function (TSDF) representation with a manifold structure. Each robot owns a private map which is composed of a collection of local TSDF sub-maps called patches that are locally consistent. This private map can be shared to build a public map collecting all the patches created by the robots of the fleet. In order to maintain consistency in the global map, a mechanism of patch alignment and fusion has been added. This work has been integrated in real-time into a mapping stack, which can be used for autonomous navigation in unknown and cluttered environment. Experimental results on a team of wheeled mobile robots are reported to demonstrate the practical interest of the proposed system, in particular for the exploration of unknown areas
SkiMap: An Efficient Mapping Framework for Robot Navigation
We present a novel mapping framework for robot navigation which features a
multi-level querying system capable to obtain rapidly representations as
diverse as a 3D voxel grid, a 2.5D height map and a 2D occupancy grid. These
are inherently embedded into a memory and time efficient core data structure
organized as a Tree of SkipLists. Compared to the well-known Octree
representation, our approach exhibits a better time efficiency, thanks to its
simple and highly parallelizable computational structure, and a similar memory
footprint when mapping large workspaces. Peculiarly within the realm of mapping
for robot navigation, our framework supports realtime erosion and
re-integration of measurements upon reception of optimized poses from the
sensor tracker, so as to improve continuously the accuracy of the map.Comment: Accepted by International Conference on Robotics and Automation
(ICRA) 2017. This is the submitted version. The final published version may
be slightly differen
Conceptual spatial representations for indoor mobile robots
We present an approach for creating conceptual representations of human-made indoor environments using mobile
robots. The concepts refer to spatial and functional properties of typical indoor environments. Following ļ¬ndings
in cognitive psychology, our model is composed of layers representing maps at diļ¬erent levels of abstraction. The
complete system is integrated in a mobile robot endowed with laser and vision sensors for place and object recognition.
The system also incorporates a linguistic framework that actively supports the map acquisition process, and which
is used for situated dialogue. Finally, we discuss the capabilities of the integrated system
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