SLAM-based Joint Calibration of Multiple Asynchronous Microphone Arrays and Sound Source Localization

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Main Authors: Wang, Jiang, He, Yuanzheng, Su, Daobilige, Itoyama, Katsutoshi, Nakadai, Kazuhiro, Wu, Junfeng, Huang, Shoudong, Li, Youfu, Kong, He
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author Wang, Jiang
He, Yuanzheng
Su, Daobilige
Itoyama, Katsutoshi
Nakadai, Kazuhiro
Wu, Junfeng
Huang, Shoudong
Li, Youfu
Kong, He
author_facet Wang, Jiang
He, Yuanzheng
Su, Daobilige
Itoyama, Katsutoshi
Nakadai, Kazuhiro
Wu, Junfeng
Huang, Shoudong
Li, Youfu
Kong, He
contents Robot audition systems with multiple microphone arrays have many applications in practice. However, accurate calibration of multiple microphone arrays remains challenging because there are many unknown parameters to be identified, including the relative transforms (i.e., orientation, translation) and asynchronous factors (i.e., initial time offset and sampling clock difference) between microphone arrays. To tackle these challenges, in this paper, we adopt batch simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for joint calibration of multiple asynchronous microphone arrays and sound source localization. Using the Fisher information matrix (FIM) approach, we first conduct the observability analysis (i.e., parameter identifiability) of the above-mentioned calibration problem and establish necessary/sufficient conditions under which the FIM and the Jacobian matrix have full column rank, which implies the identifiability of the unknown parameters. We also discover several scenarios where the unknown parameters are not uniquely identifiable. Subsequently, we propose an effective framework to initialize the unknown parameters, which is used as the initial guess in batch SLAM for multiple microphone arrays calibration, aiming to further enhance optimization accuracy and convergence. Extensive numerical simulations and real experiments have been conducted to verify the performance of the proposed method. The experiment results show that the proposed pipeline achieves higher accuracy with fast convergence in comparison to methods that use the noise-corrupted ground truth of the unknown parameters as the initial guess in the optimization and other existing frameworks.
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spellingShingle SLAM-based Joint Calibration of Multiple Asynchronous Microphone Arrays and Sound Source Localization
Wang, Jiang
He, Yuanzheng
Su, Daobilige
Itoyama, Katsutoshi
Nakadai, Kazuhiro
Wu, Junfeng
Huang, Shoudong
Li, Youfu
Kong, He
Robotics
Robot audition systems with multiple microphone arrays have many applications in practice. However, accurate calibration of multiple microphone arrays remains challenging because there are many unknown parameters to be identified, including the relative transforms (i.e., orientation, translation) and asynchronous factors (i.e., initial time offset and sampling clock difference) between microphone arrays. To tackle these challenges, in this paper, we adopt batch simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for joint calibration of multiple asynchronous microphone arrays and sound source localization. Using the Fisher information matrix (FIM) approach, we first conduct the observability analysis (i.e., parameter identifiability) of the above-mentioned calibration problem and establish necessary/sufficient conditions under which the FIM and the Jacobian matrix have full column rank, which implies the identifiability of the unknown parameters. We also discover several scenarios where the unknown parameters are not uniquely identifiable. Subsequently, we propose an effective framework to initialize the unknown parameters, which is used as the initial guess in batch SLAM for multiple microphone arrays calibration, aiming to further enhance optimization accuracy and convergence. Extensive numerical simulations and real experiments have been conducted to verify the performance of the proposed method. The experiment results show that the proposed pipeline achieves higher accuracy with fast convergence in comparison to methods that use the noise-corrupted ground truth of the unknown parameters as the initial guess in the optimization and other existing frameworks.
title SLAM-based Joint Calibration of Multiple Asynchronous Microphone Arrays and Sound Source Localization
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19813