首个面向天然溶洞的多模态SLAM数据集,含高精度位姿真值。
CAVERS: Multimodal SLAM Data from a Natural Karstic Cave with Ground Truth Motion Capture

- 在西班牙溶洞内采集24段序列,融合RGB-D、热成像与激光雷达数据
- 提供120Hz毫米级6自由度位姿真值,覆盖全暗与人工照明条件
- 适用于复杂洞穴环境下的视觉、红外、激光等多模态导航算法评测
自主机器人在天然溶洞中面临感知与导航挑战,其几何不规则、反光湿面、近零光照及复杂分支结构区别于矿井或隧道。然而公开数据集稀缺且传感模态与环境多样性有限。本文提出CAVERS,采集自西班牙马拉加Cueva de la Victoria两处结构迥异洞室的24段序列,总数据量约335 GB。传感器包括Intel RealSense D435i RGB-D-I相机、Optris PI640i近红外热成像仪和Velodyne VLP-16 LiDAR,以手持和轮式机器人搭载方式,在全黑暗与人工照明条件下运行。多数序列配备由Optitrack运动捕捉系统提供的120 Hz毫米级6-DoF位姿与速度真值。我们对七种先进SLAM与里程计算法(涵盖视觉、视觉惯性、热成像惯性、激光雷达管道)及一个三维重建流程进行基准测试,验证了数据集的可用性。数据集与所有补充材料已公开:https://github.com/spaceuma/cavers。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Autonomous robots operating in natural karstic caves face perception and navigation challenges that are qualitatively distinct from those encountered in mines or tunnels: irregular geometry, reflective wet surfaces, near-zero ambient light, and complex branching passages. Yet publicly available datasets targeting this environment remain scarce and offer limited sensing modalities and environmental diversity. We present CAVERS, a multimodal dataset acquired in two structurally distinct rooms of Cueva de la Victoria, Málaga, Spain, containing 24 sequences with approximately 335 GB of recorded data. The sensor suite combines an Intel RealSense D435i RGB-D-I camera, an Optris PI640i near-IR thermal camera, and a Velodyne VLP-16 LiDAR, operated both handheld and mounted on a wheeled rover under full darkness and artificial illumination. For most of the sequences, mm-accurate 6-DoF ground truth pose and velocity at 120 Hz are provided by an Optitrack motion capture system installed directly inside the cave. We benchmark seven state-of-the-art SLAM and odometry algorithms spanning visual, visual-inertial, thermal-inertial, and LiDAR-based pipelines, as well as a 3D reconstruction pipeline, demonstrating the dataset's usability. The dataset and all supplementary material are publicly available at: https://github.com/spaceuma/cavers.
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