Region Prediction for Efficient Robot Localization on Large Maps

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00295v1
• Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2023 07:42:48 GMT
• Title: Region Prediction for Efficient Robot Localization on Large Maps
• Authors: Matteo Scucchia and Davide Maltoni
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel approach to pre-select a subset of map nodes for place recognition. The region labels become the prediction targets of a deep neural network and, during navigation, only the nodes associated with the regions predicted with high probability are considered for matching.
• Score: 5.75614168271028
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recognizing already explored places (a.k.a. place recognition) is a fundamental task in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) to enable robot relocalization and loop closure detection. In topological SLAM the recognition takes place by comparing a signature (or feature vector) associated to the current node with the signatures of the nodes in the known map. However, as the number of nodes increases, matching the current node signature against all the existing ones becomes inefficient and thwarts real-time navigation. In this paper we propose a novel approach to pre-select a subset of map nodes for place recognition. The map nodes are clustered during exploration and each cluster is associated with a region. The region labels become the prediction targets of a deep neural network and, during navigation, only the nodes associated with the regions predicted with high probability are considered for matching. While the proposed technique can be integrated in different SLAM approaches, in this work we describe an effective integration with RTAB-Map (a popular framework for real-time topological SLAM) which allowed us to design and run several experiments to demonstrate its effectiveness. All the code and material from the experiments will be available online at https://github.com/MI-BioLab/region-learner.

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