Multiple relative pose graphs for cooperative mapping

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2010.

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Main Author: Kim, Been
Other Authors: John Leonard.
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Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59680
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spelling mit-1721.1/596802019-04-15T00:27:26Z Multiple relative pose graphs for cooperative mapping Multiple relative pose graphs for robust cooperative mapping Kim, Been John Leonard. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Aeronautics and Astronautics. Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2010. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-78). This thesis describes a new representation and algorithm for cooperative and persistent simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) using multiple robots. Recent pose graph representations have proven very successful for single robot mapping and localization. Among these methods, iSAM (incremental smoothing and mapping) gives an exact incremental solution to the SLAM problem by solving a full nonlinear optimization problem in real-time. In this paper, we present a novel extension to iSAM to facilitate multi-robot mapping based on multiple pose graphs. Our main contribution is a relative formulation of the relationship between multiple pose graphs. Our formulation avoids the initialization problem and leads to an efficient solution when compared to a completely global solution. Efficient access to covariances at any time for relative parameters is also provided, facilitating data association and loop closing. Each individual pose graph still uses a global parameterization, so that the overall system provides a globally consistent multi-robot solution. The performance of the technique is illustrated on a publicly available multi-robot data set as well as other data including a helicopter-ground robot combination. by Been Kim. S.M. 2010-10-29T18:10:31Z 2010-10-29T18:10:31Z 2010 2010 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59680 668228021 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 78 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Multiple relative pose graphs for cooperative mapping
title Multiple relative pose graphs for cooperative mapping
title_full Multiple relative pose graphs for cooperative mapping
title_fullStr Multiple relative pose graphs for cooperative mapping
title_full_unstemmed Multiple relative pose graphs for cooperative mapping
title_short Multiple relative pose graphs for cooperative mapping
title_sort multiple relative pose graphs for cooperative mapping
topic Aeronautics and Astronautics.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59680
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