Improving Map Consistency in Graph-Based LiDAR SLAM Through Information-Aware Odometry and Retroactive Loop Closure

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13516v1
• Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:12:14 GMT
• Title: Improving Map Consistency in Graph-Based LiDAR SLAM Through Information-Aware Odometry and Retroactive Loop Closure
• Abstract summary: We address the problem of improving global trajectory estimation and local map quality in 3D LiDAR SLAM.<n>We first propose a framework to efficiently estimate geometry-dependent information matrices for ICP, enabling principled weighting of odometry constraints in a pose graph.<n>We then introduce a hierarchical loop-closure module that decouples place recognition from geometric registration, together with a retroactive loop-closure module that exploits the optimized pose graph to recover missed loop closures.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: High-quality maps are fundamental for robotics tasks such as navigation and planning. Although modern graph-based LiDAR SLAM systems achieve good trajectory accuracies, a low trajectory error alone does not guarantee geometrically consistent maps, particularly at revisit locations where missed loop closures and residual drift can produce local misalignments. In this work, we address the problem of jointly improving global trajectory estimation and local map quality in 3D LiDAR SLAM. We first propose a framework to efficiently estimate geometry-dependent information matrices for ICP, enabling principled weighting of odometry constraints in a pose graph. We then introduce a hierarchical loop-closure module that decouples place recognition from geometric registration, together with a retroactive loop-closure module that exploits the optimized pose graph to recover missed loop closures. We also propose an evaluation protocol to measure map consistency at revisit locations. We evaluate our SLAM system on several datasets against state-of-the-art LiDAR SLAM systems. Experimental results demonstrate global trajectory accuracies on par with or better than existing methods while consistently improving local geometric map consistency at revisit locations. These results suggest that coupling uncertainty-aware odometry with geometry-guided loop-closure refinement leads to more accurate trajectories and higher-quality maps.

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