Gaussian-Sum Filter for Range-based 3D Relative Pose Estimation in the Presence of Ambiguities

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Hauptverfasser: Ahmed, Syed S., Shalaby, Mohammed A., Cossette, Charles C., Ny, Jerome Le, Forbes, James R.
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Ahmed, Syed S.
Shalaby, Mohammed A.
Cossette, Charles C.
Ny, Jerome Le
Forbes, James R.
author_facet Ahmed, Syed S.
Shalaby, Mohammed A.
Cossette, Charles C.
Ny, Jerome Le
Forbes, James R.
contents Multi-robot systems must have the ability to accurately estimate relative states between robots in order to perform collaborative tasks, possibly with no external aiding. Three-dimensional relative pose estimation using range measurements oftentimes suffers from a finite number of non-unique solutions, or ambiguities. This paper: 1) identifies and accurately estimates all possible ambiguities in 2D; 2) treats them as components of a Gaussian mixture model; and 3) presents a computationally-efficient estimator, in the form of a Gaussian-sum filter (GSF), to realize range-based relative pose estimation in an infrastructure-free, 3D, setup. This estimator is evaluated in simulation and experiment and is shown to avoid divergence to local minima induced by the ambiguous poses. Furthermore, the proposed GSF outperforms an extended Kalman filter, demonstrates similar performance to the computationally-demanding particle filter, and is shown to be consistent.
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spellingShingle Gaussian-Sum Filter for Range-based 3D Relative Pose Estimation in the Presence of Ambiguities
Ahmed, Syed S.
Shalaby, Mohammed A.
Cossette, Charles C.
Ny, Jerome Le
Forbes, James R.
Robotics
Multi-robot systems must have the ability to accurately estimate relative states between robots in order to perform collaborative tasks, possibly with no external aiding. Three-dimensional relative pose estimation using range measurements oftentimes suffers from a finite number of non-unique solutions, or ambiguities. This paper: 1) identifies and accurately estimates all possible ambiguities in 2D; 2) treats them as components of a Gaussian mixture model; and 3) presents a computationally-efficient estimator, in the form of a Gaussian-sum filter (GSF), to realize range-based relative pose estimation in an infrastructure-free, 3D, setup. This estimator is evaluated in simulation and experiment and is shown to avoid divergence to local minima induced by the ambiguous poses. Furthermore, the proposed GSF outperforms an extended Kalman filter, demonstrates similar performance to the computationally-demanding particle filter, and is shown to be consistent.
title Gaussian-Sum Filter for Range-based 3D Relative Pose Estimation in the Presence of Ambiguities
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08566