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Main Authors: McGann, Daniel, Kaess, Michael
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07371
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author McGann, Daniel
Kaess, Michael
author_facet McGann, Daniel
Kaess, Michael
contents This paper introduces a novel incremental distributed back-end algorithm for Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (C-SLAM). For real-world deployments, robotic teams require algorithms to compute a consistent state estimate accurately, within online runtime constraints, and with potentially limited communication. Existing centralized, decentralized, and distributed approaches to solving C-SLAM problems struggle to achieve all of these goals. To address this capability gap, we present Incremental Manifold Edge-based Separable ADMM (iMESA) a fully distributed C-SLAM back-end algorithm that can provide a multi-robot team with accurate state estimates in real-time with only sparse pair-wise communication between robots. Extensive evaluation on real and synthetic data demonstrates that iMESA is able to outperform comparable state-of-the-art C-SLAM back-ends.
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spellingShingle iMESA: Incremental Distributed Optimization for Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
McGann, Daniel
Kaess, Michael
Robotics
This paper introduces a novel incremental distributed back-end algorithm for Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (C-SLAM). For real-world deployments, robotic teams require algorithms to compute a consistent state estimate accurately, within online runtime constraints, and with potentially limited communication. Existing centralized, decentralized, and distributed approaches to solving C-SLAM problems struggle to achieve all of these goals. To address this capability gap, we present Incremental Manifold Edge-based Separable ADMM (iMESA) a fully distributed C-SLAM back-end algorithm that can provide a multi-robot team with accurate state estimates in real-time with only sparse pair-wise communication between robots. Extensive evaluation on real and synthetic data demonstrates that iMESA is able to outperform comparable state-of-the-art C-SLAM back-ends.
title iMESA: Incremental Distributed Optimization for Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07371