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DP-SLAM aims to achieve truly simultaneous localization and
mapping without landmarks. While DP-SLAM is compatible with
techniques that correct maps when a loop is closed, we have
found that DP-SLAM is accurate enough that no special loop
closing techniques are required in most cases. DP-SLAM makes
only a single pass over the sensor data.
DP-SLAM works by maintaining a joint probability distribution
over maps and robot poses using a particle filter. This
allows DP-SLAM to maintain uncertainty about the map over
multiple time steps until ambiguities can be resolved. This
prevents errors in the map from accumulating over time.
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Authors Austin Eliazar; Ronald Parr; | |
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Long Description DP-SLAM uses a particle filter to maintain a joint probability distribution over maps and robot positions. This would be expensive without some clever data structures since it would require a complete copy of the entire occupancy grid for every particle, and would require making copies of the maps during the resampling phase of the particle filter. The figure below conceptually shows an ancestry of particles and map updates, with leaves of the ancestry tree pointing to maps. (Think of each red dot in the ancestry tree as a sampled robot position and the black lines around the red dot as the new observations associated with the current robot position. The gray lines show piece of the map inherited from the previous particle.) Notice that all maps in this example will agree with the initial observation. The two leftmost maps will agree on the observations made by the left child of the root, while the two rightmost maps will agree with the observations made by the right child of the root. It would be a waste of memory and time to store and repeatedly copy these map sections every time a particle is resampled. Instead, we use a single occupancy grid which stores an observation tree at each square. As shown below, each particle inserts its observations into the global grid. These are stored as a balanced tree, indexed on a unique ID assigned to each particle. The computer science part of the DP-SLAM project involves the algorithms and analysis to show that these data structures can be maintained efficiently. | |
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Input Data The approach takes raw laser range data and odometry. | |
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Type of Map grid maps | |
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Hardware/Software Requirements Linux | |
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Papers Describing the Approach Austin Eliazar, Ronald Parr: DP-SLAM: Fast, Robust Simultainous Localization and Mapping Without Predetermined Landmarks, IJCAI, 2003 (link) Austin Eliazar, Ronald Parr: DP-SLAM 2.0, , (link) | |
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