直接基于雷达强度图进行联合优化,实现高精度全天候定位与建图。
Dr-BA: Separable Optimization for Direct Radar Bundle Adjustment & Localization

- 将雷达强度图作为输入,通过可分离优化联合估计位姿与稠密地图
- 在5条路线超200公里数据上实现领先性能,支持跨会话定位
- 开源实现,适合自动驾驶中需要全天候感知的系统研发
本文提出Dr-BA,首个直接在2D旋转雷达强度图像上运行的雷达束调整(BA)框架。相比相机或激光雷达,雷达受降水影响小,是实现全天候自主系统的关键传感器。现有方法通常从距离-方位-强度测量中提取稀疏点云,再进行点云配准以估计车辆运动或场景结构。而Dr-BA利用多帧扫描的完整雷达回波,联合估计稠密地图与传感器位姿。通过构建可分离优化问题,推导出高效通用的解法,实现位姿估计与建图的解耦。该框架不仅解决BA问题,还可自然扩展至已有地图内的直接雷达仅定位(DRL)。在五个不同路线上超过200公里的真实道路数据上验证,性能达到当前最优。代码已公开于https://github.com/utiasASRL/dr_ba。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper introduces Dr-BA, a first-of-its-kind radar bundle adjustment (BA) framework that operates directly on 2D spinning radar intensity images. Unlike camera or lidar sensors, radar is largely unaffected by precipitation, making it a critical modality for autonomous systems that require all-weather robustness. Existing state estimation approaches using spinning radar typically extract sparse point clouds from range-azimuth-intensity measurements and apply point cloud alignment techniques to estimate vehicle motion, scene structure, or to localize within an existing map. In contrast, Dr-BA uses the full radar returns from multiple scans to jointly estimate dense maps and sensor poses. By formulating the problem as a separable optimization, we derive an efficient and general solution that decouples pose estimation from mapping. In addition to solving the BA problem, this formulation naturally extends to direct radar-only localization (DRL) within a previously built map. Dr-BA achieves state-of-the-art radar-based BA and cross-session localization performance, demonstrated on more than 200 km of on-road data across five distinct routes. Our implementation is publicly available at https://github.com/utiasASRL/dr_ba.
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