C-ARC: Continuous-Adaptive Range Clustering for Non-Repetitive LiDAR Sensors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18948v1
• Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:30:40 GMT
• Title: C-ARC: Continuous-Adaptive Range Clustering for Non-Repetitive LiDAR Sensors
• Abstract summary: Real-time LiDAR clustering identifies structures in point clouds.<n>Use of non-repetitive LiDAR sensors is strongly increasing due to their small cost and form factor.<n>C-ARC produces real-time cluster output at 20 Hz on commodity hardware for the Livox Mid-360.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Real-time LiDAR clustering identifies structures in point clouds, which is an essential prerequisite for many mobile robotics algorithms. Current methods are mostly developed for repetitive mechanical LiDAR sensors. Recently, the use of non-repetitive LiDAR sensors is strongly increasing due to their small cost and form factor. Such non-repetitive Risley prism-based sensors violate two key assumptions of repetitive mechanical sensors: structured scan lines and well-defined frame boundaries. Their Rhodonea-curve trajectories produce non-uniform point distributions, and the absence of a rotation cycle renders conventional scan line indexing inapplicable. To meet such new requirements, we developed C-ARC, a Continuous-Adaptive Range Clustering framework that maintains a persistent dual-graph over a sliding window, decoupling high-frequency point insertion from on-demand cluster retrieval. This is crucial for key functionalities like SLAM or tracking. An adaptive range grid resolution mechanism calibrates grid dimensions at initialization using an exponential control loop, balancing the sparsity-collision trade-off without prior knowledge of the scanning pattern. Implemented as an open-sourced single-threaded C++17 library, C-ARC produces real-time cluster output at 20 Hz on commodity hardware for the Livox Mid-360. Evaluation on the Livox Avia identifies unbounded cell occupancy as the primary limitation for sensors with strongly concentrated scan patterns. The adaptive resolution mechanism additionally improves clustering quality for existing grid-based methods on non-repetitive data.

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