无需地标和深度传感器,实现跨会话的高效视觉导航建图
OpenNavMap: Multi-Session Appearance-Based Topometric Mapping for Scalable Visual Navigation
- 用图像节点构建拓扑几何图,按需调用3D几何基础模型恢复局部结构
- 在19公里真实场景中实现0.62米定位误差,15.7公里轨迹绝对误差低于3米
- 适合长期部署的机器人导航系统,支持多设备、多会话数据融合
可扩展且可维护的地图是机器人在真实环境中长期部署和大规模导航的基础。然而,传统显式维护密集几何或3D特征点的地图存在高存储与维护成本,且跨会话建图面临视点重叠稀疏、外观随时间变化及跨设备差异的核心挑战。为此,我们提出OpenNavMap,一种轻量级、无特征点的拓扑几何映射系统,将图像节点组织为共视性、里程计与可通行性图,并将局部几何恢复任务交由3D几何基础模型(GFMs)按需完成。定位时,基于动态规划的序列匹配缩小候选对应关系,将全局估计简化为轻量级仅姿态优化;建图时,采用终身学习流水线通过跨设备合并与节点裁剪融合多会话、多设备数据。在涵盖四个真实环境的19公里数据集上,OpenNavMap在无地图基准下达到0.62米的平移误差,15.7公里内绝对轨迹误差低于3米,且在模拟与物理机器人上成功完成12项自主图像目标视觉导航任务。代码与数据集将公开于https://rpl-cs-ucl.github.io/OpenNavMap_page。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Scalable and maintainable maps are fundamental to large-scale navigation and the long-term deployment of robots in real-world environments. However, conventional maps that explicitly maintain dense geometry or 3D landmarks incur high storage and maintenance costs, while the core challenge of scaling to multi-session mapping is visual localization under sparse viewpoint overlap, temporal appearance shifts, and cross-device variance. To address this, we propose OpenNavMap, a lightweight, landmark-free topometric mapping system that organizes image nodes into covisibility, odometry, and traversability graphs and delegates local geometry recovery to 3D geometric foundation models (GFMs) on demand. For localization, dynamic-programming-based sequence matching narrows candidate correspondences for a GFM, reducing global estimation to a lightweight, pose-only optimization; for mapping, a lifelong pipeline fuses multi-session, multi-device data via cross-device merging and node culling. On a 19km dataset across four real-world environments, \methodname attains a state-of-the-art $0.62$m translation error on the Map-Free benchmark, bounds the absolute trajectory error below $3$m across 15.7km without depth sensors, and completes $12$ autonomous image-goal visual navigation tasks on both simulated and physical robots. Code and datasets will be made publicly available at https://rpl-cs-ucl.github.io/OpenNavMap_page.
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