arXiv:2510.17237cs.RO2025-10被引 2

用路灯作锚点生成3D地图特征,实现长期精准定位与地图更新。

Pole-Image: A Self-Supervised Pole-Anchored Descriptor for Long-Term LiDAR Localization and Map Maintenance

  • 以路灯为参考点,将周围点云转为极坐标图像生成描述符。
  • 通过对比学习获得视角不变的强区分特征,定位准确率高。
  • 适合城市道路场景的长期机器人导航与地图维护,易部署。

移动机器人实现长期自主运行需具备鲁棒的自定位与可靠的地图维护能力。传统基于地标的方法在可检测性高的地标(如路灯)与区分度高的局部点云结构之间存在根本权衡。本文提出一种新范式——Pole-Image,利用可精确定位的路灯作为锚点,将其周围3D结构编码为以路灯为原点的2D极坐标图像,形成兼具高可检测性与高区分性的表征。该方法充分利用路灯易于检测的特性,使机器人能稳定追踪同一路灯,从而自动收集大量观测数据(正样本对),支持对比学习(Contrastive Learning)的应用。模型由此学习到视角不变且高度区分的描述符,有效克服感知混淆问题,实现鲁棒自定位;同时,高精度几何编码带来高灵敏度变化检测能力,有助于地图维护。实验验证了该方法在长期定位与动态环境适应中的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Long-term autonomy for mobile robots requires both robust self-localization and reliable map maintenance. Conventional landmark-based methods face a fundamental trade-off between landmarks with high detectability but low distinctiveness (e.g., poles) and those with high distinctiveness but difficult stable detection (e.g., local point cloud structures). This work addresses the challenge of descriptively identifying a unique "signature" (local point cloud) by leveraging a detectable, high-precision "anchor" (like a pole). To solve this, we propose a novel canonical representation, "Pole-Image," as a hybrid method that uses poles as anchors to generate signatures from the surrounding 3D structure. Pole-Image represents a pole-like landmark and its surrounding environment, detected from a LiDAR point cloud, as a 2D polar coordinate image with the pole itself as the origin. This representation leverages the pole's nature as a high-precision reference point, explicitly encoding the "relative geometry" between the stable pole and the variable surrounding point cloud. The key advantage of pole landmarks is that "detection" is extremely easy. This ease of detection allows the robot to easily track the same pole, enabling the automatic and large-scale collection of diverse observational data (positive pairs). This data acquisition feasibility makes "Contrastive Learning (CL)" applicable. By applying CL, the model learns a viewpoint-invariant and highly discriminative descriptor. The contributions are twofold: 1) The descriptor overcomes perceptual aliasing, enabling robust self-localization. 2) The high-precision encoding enables high-sensitivity change detection, contributing to map maintenance.

LiDAR定位自监督学习地图维护点云表征

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