用图像分割提取月球岩石地标,实现无漂移的精准全局定位。
LunarLoc: Segment-Based Global Localization on the Moon
- 基于实例分割识别月面岩石,构建图结构地图进行定位。
- 多时段实验达厘米级精度,显著优于现有方法。
- 适合需要长期自主运行的月球探测任务使用。
全球定位对月面自主作业至关重要,因缺乏地球依赖的导航设施(如GPS)。随着美国阿尔忒弥斯计划推进,机器人探索与基建部署需长期自主运行。传统视觉惯性里程计(VIO)在长距离移动中累积漂移,影响挖掘与运输等任务的精度。针对此问题,本文提出LunarLoc,通过实例分割从机载双目图像中零样本提取岩石地标,构建地形图结构,并利用图论数据关联技术将当前图与前期采集的参考地图对齐,实现无漂移的全局定位。该方法在视觉模糊环境下仍保持高精度。多时段实验表明,其定位精度达厘米级,显著超越当前最优月球全局定位方法。为促进后续研究,本文公开数据集及回放模块:https://github.com/mit-acl/lunarloc-data。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Global localization is necessary for autonomous operations on the lunar surface where traditional Earth-based navigation infrastructure, such as GPS, is unavailable. As NASA advances toward sustained lunar presence under the Artemis program, autonomous operations will be an essential component of tasks such as robotic exploration and infrastructure deployment. Tasks such as excavation and transport of regolith require precise pose estimation, but proposed approaches such as visual-inertial odometry (VIO) accumulate odometry drift over long traverses. Precise pose estimation is particularly important for upcoming missions such as the ISRU Pilot Excavator (IPEx) that rely on autonomous agents to operate over extended timescales and varied terrain. To help overcome odometry drift over long traverses, we propose LunarLoc, an approach to global localization that leverages instance segmentation for zero-shot extraction of boulder landmarks from onboard stereo imagery. Segment detections are used to construct a graph-based representation of the terrain, which is then aligned with a reference map of the environment captured during a previous session using graph-theoretic data association. This method enables accurate and drift-free global localization in visually ambiguous settings. LunarLoc achieves sub-cm level accuracy in multi-session global localization experiments, significantly outperforming the state of the art in lunar global localization. To encourage the development of further methods for global localization on the Moon, we release our datasets publicly with a playback module: https://github.com/mit-acl/lunarloc-data.
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