解决电梯中机器人定位漂移问题,实现跨楼层连续精准定位。
Elevator-LIO: Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry for Multi-Floor Navigation under Elevator-Induced Non-Inertial Motion

- 分离电梯与机器人运动建模,用分段卡尔曼滤波处理非惯性环境。
- 电梯停靠时触发零速/零加速度更新,垂直位置误差低于1厘米。
- 适合需要跨楼层导航的机器人,如配送、巡检场景。
本文提出Elevator-LIO,一种专为电梯内非惯性运动设计的激光雷达-惯性里程计框架,支持机器人在乘梯过程中实现连续定位,从而完成跨楼层任务。针对非惯性参考系下的状态估计难题,该方法构建解耦状态估计模型,分别建模机器人相对于电梯及电梯自身的运动,并嵌入模式依赖的迭代误差状态卡尔曼滤波框架。在普通室内环境中退化为传统LIO;在电梯环境中可传播并约束电梯相关状态,实现稳定定位。通过激光测距统计与状态估计识别乘梯起止事件,在电梯停止时引入事件触发的零速与零加速度更新,抑制垂直方向累积漂移。同时采用自适应体素下采样策略,在大幅环境尺度变化下维持有效点数稳定。在包含79次乘梯的20个真实序列上进行实验,涵盖大空间、长距离垂直移动、动态行人干扰及镜面反射等挑战。结果表明,所有序列均保持连续定位,17个序列终端高度误差低于1厘米。对比现有主流系统表现显著更优。在Hilti 2022/2023数据集上的测试也验证了其在标准室内场景下的竞争力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper presents Elevator-LIO, a LiDAR-inertial odometry framework designed to achieve continuous robot localization during elevator travel, thereby supporting cross-floor robotic tasks. To address the state-estimation problem in non-inertial frames, Elevator-LIO establishes a decoupled state-estimation model that separately models the robot motion relative to the elevator and the elevator motion itself, and embeds it into a mode-dependent iterated error-state Kalman filter framework. This framework degenerates to conventional LIO estimation in ordinary indoor environments, while enabling the propagation and constrained update of elevator-related states in elevator non-inertial environments, thereby achieving continuous and stable localization. An elevator mode manager detects elevator entry and exit events using LiDAR ranging statistics and estimated states, and introduces event-triggered zero-velocity and zero-acceleration updates when the elevator stops to suppress accumulated vertical drift. In addition, this paper adopts an adaptive voxel downsampling strategy to maintain a stable number of effective points under significant environmental scale changes. We conduct extensive experiments on 20 real-world sequences containing 79 elevator rides, including practical challenges such as large-scale spaces, long vertical travel, dynamic pedestrian interference, and mirror reflections. The results show that Elevator-LIO maintains continuous localization accuracy in all sequences, with terminal height error below 1 cm in 17 sequences. In contrast, existing representative localization systems perform poorly on these elevator sequences. Tests on the Hilti 2022/2023 datasets further show that the proposed method remains competitive in standard indoor scenarios. The project page is available at https://xiaofan4122.github.io/Elevator_LIO_Page/.
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