2021/03/23 by Pengxiang Zhu, Patrick Geneva, Zhu, Pengxiang +5 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Engineering · #Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies #Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization #Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems #cs.CV #cs.RO
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2103.12770
8 pages, 5 figures, 8 tables; IROS 2021 final version
arxiv created 2021/08/17 · arxiv updated 2021/08/19
In this paper we present a consistent and distributed state estimator for multi-robot cooperative localization (CL) which efficiently fuses environmental features and loop-closure constraints across time and robots. In particular, we leverage covariance intersection (CI) to allow each robot to only estimate its own state and autocovariance and compensate for the unknown correlations between robots. Two novel multi-robot methods for utilizing common environmental SLAM features are introduced and evaluated in terms of accuracy and efficiency. Moreover, we adapt CI to enable drift-free estimation through the use of loop-closure measurement constraints to other robots' historical poses without a significant increase in computational cost. The proposed distributed CL estimator is validated against its non-realtime centralized counterpart extensively in both simulations and real-world experiments.