Optimal Target Shape for LiDAR Pose Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.01181v2
• Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 15:16:39 GMT
• Title: Optimal Target Shape for LiDAR Pose Estimation
• Authors: Jiunn-Kai Huang, William Clark, and Jessy W. Grizzle
• Abstract summary: Targets are essential in problems such as object tracking in cluttered or textureless environments. symmetric shapes lead to pose ambiguity when using sparse sensor data. This paper introduces the concept of optimizing target shape to remove pose ambiguity for LiDAR point clouds.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Targets are essential in problems such as object tracking in cluttered or textureless environments, camera (and multi-sensor) calibration tasks, and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Target shapes for these tasks typically are symmetric (square, rectangular, or circular) and work well for structured, dense sensor data such as pixel arrays (i.e., image). However, symmetric shapes lead to pose ambiguity when using sparse sensor data such as LiDAR point clouds and suffer from the quantization uncertainty of the LiDAR. This paper introduces the concept of optimizing target shape to remove pose ambiguity for LiDAR point clouds. A target is designed to induce large gradients at edge points under rotation and translation relative to the LiDAR to ameliorate the quantization uncertainty associated with point cloud sparseness. Moreover, given a target shape, we present a means that leverages the target's geometry to estimate the target's vertices while globally estimating the pose. Both the simulation and the experimental results (verified by a motion capture system) confirm that by using the optimal shape and the global solver, we achieve centimeter error in translation and a few degrees in rotation even when a partially illuminated target is placed 30 meters away. All the implementations and datasets are available at https://github.com/UMich-BipedLab/optimal_shape_global_pose_estimation.

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