arXiv:2503.19506cs.RO2025-03中稿 · IEEE Transactions …被引 24

解决复杂环境下的地图漂移问题,实现高精度定位与建图。

MM-LINS: a Multi-Map LiDAR-Inertial System for Over-Degenerate Environments

  • 采用多地图架构,过退化时自动保存当前地图并创建新地图。
  • 通过扫描上下文匹配识别相似地图,融合重叠区域提升定位精度。
  • 适用于人流密集、烟雾遮挡等动态退化场景,适合机器人导航应用。

SLAM在自动化任务中至关重要,如仓库物流、医疗机器人和餐厅配送。这些场景面临人群穿行、塑料袋遮挡传感器以及烹饪烟雾导致激光雷达密度下降等问题,易引发过退化,造成地图漂移。本文首次提出多地图激光雷达-惯性系统(MM-LINS)。前端采用迭代误差状态卡尔曼滤波进行状态估计,并引入可靠的退化检测策略;一旦检测到过退化,主动地图将存入休眠地图。系统随后使用动态初始化方法持续构建新地图,确保离开退化区后能成功初始化。后端利用扫描上下文描述符检测跨地图相似性;当识别出与活跃地图共享区域的休眠地图时,利用重叠轨迹区域约束前地图边缘的位置变换。为此,提出一种增强约束的地图融合策略,实现高精度位置与建图结果。在具有过退化条件的公开数据集及真实环境中的实验验证了MM-LINS的有效性。代码已开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

SLAM plays a crucial role in automation tasks, such as warehouse logistics, healthcare robotics, and restaurant delivery. These scenes come with various challenges, including navigating around crowds of people, dealing with flying plastic bags that can temporarily blind sensors, and addressing reduced LiDAR density caused by cooking smoke. Such scenarios can result in over-degeneracy, causing the map to drift. To address this issue, this paper presents a multi-map LiDAR-inertial system (MM-LINS) for the first time. The front-end employs an iterated error state Kalman filter for state estimation and introduces a reliable evaluation strategy for degeneracy detection. If over-degeneracy is detected, the active map will be stored into sleeping maps. Subsequently, the system continuously attempts to construct new maps using a dynamic initialization method to ensure successful initialization upon leaving the over-degeneracy. Regarding the back-end, the Scan Context descriptor is utilized to detect inter-map similarity. Upon successful recognition of a sleeping map that shares a common region with the active map, the overlapping trajectory region is utilized to constrain the positional transformation near the edge of the prior map. In response to this, a constraint-enhanced map fusion strategy is proposed to achieve high-precision positional and mapping results. Experiments have been conducted separately on both public datasets that exhibited over-degenerate conditions and in real-world environments. These tests demonstrated the effectiveness of MM-LINS in over-degeneracy environment. Our codes are open-sourced on Github.

SLAM多地图激光雷达退化处理

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