提升雷达里程计精度,应对恶劣天气下的点云稀疏与噪声问题。
RaDiVe: Robust 4D Radar Odometry with Distance-Bounded NDT and Velocity-Discrepancy Point Uncertainty

- 限定邻近体素对搜索范围,提升点云配准优化稳定性与效率。
- 基于多普勒速度差异建模点不确定性,降低测量模糊性。
- 结合隐式神经映射提取几何一致表面点,实现实时高精度里程计。
4D雷达技术的进步使其在恶劣天气下具备鲁棒感知能力,但雷达点云固有的稀疏性、噪声及定位精度有限,给基于配准的里程计带来了挑战。本文提出RaDiVe框架,通过引入距离约束的归一化分布变换(NDT),将对应关系搜索限制在邻近体素对内,提升了优化稳定性与计算效率;为缓解测量模糊性,提出速度差异点不确定性模型,依据测量径向速度与估计自车速度预测的径向速度差异,对每个4D雷达点加权;此外,利用基于符号距离函数(SDF)的隐式神经映射提取几何一致且去噪的局部子图。在多个公开数据集上的评估表明,RaDiVe在平移绝对轨迹误差(ATE)上平均优于现有基线44.4%,旋转ATE提升21.3%,同时保持实时性能。源码将向机器人社区开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent advances in 4D radar enable robust perception in adverse weather; however, the inherent sparsity, noise, and limited positional precision of radar point clouds pose significant challenges for registration-based odometry. In this letter, we propose RaDiVe, a 4D radar odometry framework designed to improve the accuracy and robustness of radar point-cloud registration. We introduce a distance-bounded Normal Distributions Transform (NDT), which improves optimization stability and computational efficiency by restricting the correspondence search to near-distance voxel pairs. To mitigate measurement ambiguity, we propose a velocity-discrepancy point uncertainty model that weights each input 4D radar point according to the discrepancy between its measured Doppler radial velocity and the radial velocity predicted from the estimated ego-velocity. Furthermore, we incorporate Signed Distance Function (SDF)-based surface point extraction via implicit neural mapping to construct a geometrically consistent and noise-filtered local submap. Evaluations across multiple public datasets demonstrate that RaDiVe outperforms existing 4D radar odometry baselines by 44.4% in translational Absolute Trajectory Error (ATE) and 21.3% in rotational ATE on average, while maintaining real-time performance. The source code will be made publicly available to the robotics community: https://github.com/to-be-open-sourced.
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