A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach to Closing the Loop in SLAM
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 645 - 650, April, 2005
Abstract
The problem of simultaneous localization and mapping has received much attention over the last years. Especially large scale environments, where the robot trajectory loops back on itself, are a challenge. In this paper we introduce a new solution to this problem of closing the loop. Our algorithm is EM-based, but differs from previous work. The key is a probability distribution over partitions of feature tracks that is determined in the E-step, based on the current estimate of the motion. This virtual structure is then used in the M-step to obtain a better estimate for the motion. We demonstrate the success of our algorithm in experiments on real laser data.
BibTeX
@conference{Kaess-2005-9167,author = {Michael Kaess and Frank Dellaert},
title = {A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach to Closing the Loop in SLAM},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation},
year = {2005},
month = {April},
pages = {645 - 650},
}
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