arXiv:2606.29259cs.RO2026-06

融合激光、惯性与热成像,实现复杂环境下的稳定定位与热异常检测。

PL-LIT: A LiDAR-Inertial-Thermal SLAM Using Point-Line Features and Thermographic Mapping

论文配图:PL-LIT: A LiDAR-Inertial-Thermal SLAM Using Point-Line Features and Thermographic Mapping
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  • 采用点线特征与神经网络提取热图像特征,克服低对比度问题。
  • 在长距离热成像数据集上达到当前最优定位精度,支持实时热异常识别。
  • 适合自动驾驶、工业巡检等需全天候感知的场景使用。

热成像在强光、低照度和雾天等恶劣条件下具有鲁棒性,可缓解可见光图像不可靠时的里程计退化问题。然而,多数热成像设备采用自动增益控制(AGC),导致图像全局对比度低,虽有丰富边缘结构但违反亮度恒定假设,破坏基于光流的里程计。为此,我们提出通用的激光-惯性-热成像SLAM系统,兼容可见光与热成像。PL-LIT结合在线辐射校准模块与深度神经网络进行点线特征提取,提升热图像跟踪稳定性。状态估计采用误差状态迭代卡尔曼滤波(ESIKF)的紧耦合框架,并引入线特征约束机制以保障几何一致性。此外,系统构建概率热强度体素地图,支持实时热异常检测。大量实验表明,PL-LIT在可见光环境中表现良好,在长距离热红外数据集上达领先性能,并可实现基于热图的实用安全巡检功能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Thermal imaging is resilient to adverse conditions, such as intense illumination, low-light operation, and fog, and can therefore mitigate odometry degradation when visible-spectrum imagery becomes unreliable. Nevertheless, most thermal cameras employ automatic gain control (AGC), and thermal images often present low global contrast despite containing informative edge structures. These characteristics undermine brightness constancy and cause conventional optical flow tracking-based odometry pipelines that fundamentally rely on the brightness constancy assumption across consecutive frames. To address these issues, we propose a general LiDAR-Inertial-Thermal SLAM system that accommodates both visible-light and thermal cameras. PL-LIT combines an online photometric calibration module with a deep neural network for point-line feature extraction, enabling more stable and repeatable thermal tracking. For state estimation, we design a tightly coupled LiDAR-Inertial-Thermal formulation within an Error-State Iterated Kalman Filter (ESIKF). We further introduce a line-feature constraint scheme ensuring the reliability of geometric constraints across varying thermal appearances. In addition, PL-LIT builds a probabilistic thermal-intensity voxel map, which supports real-time thermal anomaly detection. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PL-LIT exhibits generality and robustness in visible-light environments, achieves state-of-the-art performance on long-range thermal infrared datasets, and provides practical safety inspection functionality based on thermographic mapping.

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