针对农田复杂环境,提出自适应激光雷达里程计与建图方法。
Adaptive LiDAR Odometry and Mapping for Autonomous Agricultural Mobile Robots in Unmanned Farms
- 基于密集广义ICP匹配,动态过滤畸变点与稀疏动态物体。
- 在多种种植类型和地形下实现稳定高精度定位与建图。
- 适合农业机器人在非结构化环境中使用,计算效率高。
无人智能农业系统对提升农业效率、缓解劳动力短缺至关重要。然而,与城市环境不同,农田环境对自主机器人系统带来独特挑战,如环境无序且动态变化、地形粗糙不平,导致机器人运动不平稳。为此,本文提出一种面向复杂农业环境的自适应激光雷达里程计与建图框架。该框架包含基于密集广义ICP扫描匹配的鲁棒里程计算法,以及根据运动稳定性与点云一致性进行选择性更新的自适应建图模块。核心设计思想是通过剔除运动畸变点和稀疏动态物体,优先保证地图的增量一致性,从而在扫描匹配中获得高精度里程计估计。在真实农田采集的多类种植、地形及运动模式数据集上,广泛对比了当前先进方法。结果表明,本方法在各类农业场景中均能一致且稳健地实现精准定位与建图,而其他方法对突发运动和非结构化环境中的累积漂移敏感。此外,本方法计算效率与现有方法相当。相关源代码与数据集已开源:https://github.com/UCR-Robotics/AG-LOAM。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Unmanned and intelligent agricultural systems are crucial for enhancing agricultural efficiency and for helping mitigate the effect of labor shortage. However, unlike urban environments, agricultural fields impose distinct and unique challenges on autonomous robotic systems, such as the unstructured and dynamic nature of the environment, the rough and uneven terrain, and the resulting non-smooth robot motion. To address these challenges, this work introduces an adaptive LiDAR odometry and mapping framework tailored for autonomous agricultural mobile robots operating in complex agricultural environments. The proposed framework consists of a robust LiDAR odometry algorithm based on dense Generalized-ICP scan matching, and an adaptive mapping module that considers motion stability and point cloud consistency for selective map updates. The key design principle of this framework is to prioritize the incremental consistency of the map by rejecting motion-distorted points and sparse dynamic objects, which in turn leads to high accuracy in odometry estimated from scan matching against the map. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated via extensive evaluation against state-of-the-art methods on field datasets collected in real-world agricultural environments featuring various planting types, terrain types, and robot motion profiles. Results demonstrate that our method can achieve accurate odometry estimation and mapping results consistently and robustly across diverse agricultural settings, whereas other methods are sensitive to abrupt robot motion and accumulated drift in unstructured environments. Further, the computational efficiency of our method is competitive compared with other methods. The source code of the developed method and the associated field dataset are publicly available at https://github.com/UCR-Robotics/AG-LOAM.
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