학술논문

Loop-Box: Multiagent Direct SLAM Triggered by Single Loop Closure for Large-Scale Mapping
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics IEEE Trans. Cybern. Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on. 52(6):5088-5097 Jun, 2022
Subject
Signal Processing and Analysis
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Robotics and Control Systems
General Topics for Engineers
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Simultaneous localization and mapping
Three-dimensional displays
Cameras
Multi-agent systems
Robot vision systems
Covariance matrices
Direct simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)
large-scale 3-D mapping
loop closure
multiagent SLAM
Language
ISSN
2168-2267
2168-2275
Abstract
In this article, we present a multiagent framework for real-time large-scale 3-D reconstruction applications. In SLAM, researchers usually build and update a 3-D map after applying nonlinear pose graph optimization techniques. Moreover, many multiagent systems are prevalently using odometry information from additional sensors. These methods generally involve extensive computer vision algorithms and are tightly coupled with various sensors. We develop a generic method for the key challenging scenarios in multiagent 3-D mapping based on different camera systems. The proposed framework performs actively in terms of localizing each agent after the first loop closure between them. It is shown that the proposed system only uses monocular cameras to yield real-time multiagent large-scale localization and 3-D global mapping. Based on the initial matching, our system can calculate the optimal scale difference between multiple 3-D maps and then estimate an accurate relative pose transformation for large-scale global mapping.