arXiv:2607.12265cs.ROcs.SY2026-07

用可微物理模型建模雷达信号,提升移动平台的鲁棒定位与建图能力。

DiffRadar: Differentiable Physics-Aware Radar SLAM with Gaussian Fields

论文配图:DiffRadar: Differentiable Physics-Aware Radar SLAM with Gaussian Fields
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  • 将雷达数据视为可微的物理高斯场,而非离散扫描
  • 在走廊等弱特征场景下轨迹误差显著降低,地图一致性提升一倍以上
  • 适用于车载、无人机等需全天候运行的机器人系统

雷达传感因能在光照不足、恶劣天气及隐私敏感场景下稳定工作,正被越来越多移动系统采用。然而,现有雷达SLAM系统通常基于离散雷达热图进行扫描匹配,破坏几何连续性,难以捕捉关键雷达特性,导致姿态估计不稳定、动态或再生环境下的建图质量下降。本文提出DiffRadar,一种实时雷达SLAM系统,将雷达观测建模为可微的、物理感知的高斯场,而非离散扫描。该系统以各向异性高斯原语表示场景,并通过可微雷达前向模型在距离-方位和多普勒-方位空间中渲染测量值,实现从原始雷达信号直接联合优化机器人位姿与场景结构。我们在商用FMCW雷达硬件上实现了DiffRadar,评估其在公开Radarize基准和针对常见雷达SLAM失效模式(如走廊退化、运动模式切换、动态杂波、长时回环)的受控压力测试集上的表现。结果显示,相较于基准方法,系统在基准测试中轨迹误差显著降低,尤其在特征稀疏的走廊运动中优势明显;地图一致性提升超过一倍,同时保持70 FPS的实时性能。结果表明,在信号域直接建模雷达观测,可显著提升移动平台的纯雷达SLAM鲁棒性与一致性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Radar sensing is increasingly used in mobile systems because it operates reliably under poor lighting, adverse weather, and privacy-sensitive settings where cameras and LiDAR often fail. However, most existing radar SLAM systems estimate motion through scan matching on discretized radar heatmaps, which breaks geometric continuity and fails to capture key radar sensing properties, often leading to unstable pose estimation and degraded mapping in regenerate or dynamically changing environments. We present DiffRadar, a real-time radar SLAM system that models radar observations as a differentiable, physics-aware Gaussian field rather than discrete scans. DiffRadar represents the scene as anisotropic Gaussian primitives and renders radar measurements in range-azimuth and Doppler-azimuth spaces through a differentiable radar forward model, enabling joint optimization of robot pose and scene structure directly from radar measurements. We implement DiffRadar on commodity FMCW radar hardware and evaluate it on both the public Radarize benchmark and a controlled stress-test suite that targets common radar SLAM failure modes, including corridor degeneracy, motion regime transitions, dynamic clutter, and long-horizon loop closures. DiffRadar achieves substantial reductions in trajectory error on the benchmark, with especially large gains under feature-poor corridor motion, while more than doubling map consistency and maintaining real-time performance at 70 FPS. These results show that modeling radar observations directly in the signal domain enables substantially more robust and consistent radar-only SLAM for mobile platforms.

雷达SLAM可微物理高斯场实时定位

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