scholarly journals A survey: which features are required for dynamic visual simultaneous localization and mapping?

Author(s):  
Zewen Xu ◽  
Zheng Rong ◽  
Yihong Wu

AbstractIn recent years, simultaneous localization and mapping in dynamic environments (dynamic SLAM) has attracted significant attention from both academia and industry. Some pioneering work on this technique has expanded the potential of robotic applications. Compared to standard SLAM under the static world assumption, dynamic SLAM divides features into static and dynamic categories and leverages each type of feature properly. Therefore, dynamic SLAM can provide more robust localization for intelligent robots that operate in complex dynamic environments. Additionally, to meet the demands of some high-level tasks, dynamic SLAM can be integrated with multiple object tracking. This article presents a survey on dynamic SLAM from the perspective of feature choices. A discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of different visual features is provided in this article.

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 2068 ◽  
Author(s):  
César Debeunne ◽  
Damien Vivet

Autonomous navigation requires both a precise and robust mapping and localization solution. In this context, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a very well-suited solution. SLAM is used for many applications including mobile robotics, self-driving cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, or autonomous underwater vehicles. In these domains, both visual and visual-IMU SLAM are well studied, and improvements are regularly proposed in the literature. However, LiDAR-SLAM techniques seem to be relatively the same as ten or twenty years ago. Moreover, few research works focus on vision-LiDAR approaches, whereas such a fusion would have many advantages. Indeed, hybridized solutions offer improvements in the performance of SLAM, especially with respect to aggressive motion, lack of light, or lack of visual features. This study provides a comprehensive survey on visual-LiDAR SLAM. After a summary of the basic idea of SLAM and its implementation, we give a complete review of the state-of-the-art of SLAM research, focusing on solutions using vision, LiDAR, and a sensor fusion of both modalities.


Author(s):  
Alfredo J. Bayuelo ◽  
Tauhidul Alam ◽  
Gregory M. Reis ◽  
Luis Fernando Nino ◽  
Leonardo Bobadilla ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 2105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guolai Jiang ◽  
Lei Yin ◽  
Shaokun Jin ◽  
Chaoran Tian ◽  
Xinbo Ma ◽  
...  

The method of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) using a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor is commonly adopted for robot navigation. However, consumer robots are price sensitive and often have to use low-cost sensors. Due to the poor performance of a low-cost LiDAR, error accumulates rapidly while SLAM, and it may cause a huge error for building a larger map. To cope with this problem, this paper proposes a new graph optimization-based SLAM framework through the combination of low-cost LiDAR sensor and vision sensor. In the SLAM framework, a new cost-function considering both scan and image data is proposed, and the Bag of Words (BoW) model with visual features is applied for loop close detection. A 2.5D map presenting both obstacles and vision features is also proposed, as well as a fast relocation method with the map. Experiments were taken on a service robot equipped with a 360° low-cost LiDAR and a front-view RGB-D camera in the real indoor scene. The results show that the proposed method has better performance than using LiDAR or camera only, while the relocation speed with our 2.5D map is much faster than with traditional grid map.


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