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Main Authors: Weishaupt, Fabio, Tilly, Julius F., Appenrodt, Nils, Fischer, Pascal, Dickmann, Jürgen, Heberling, Dirk
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05811
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author Weishaupt, Fabio
Tilly, Julius F.
Appenrodt, Nils
Fischer, Pascal
Dickmann, Jürgen
Heberling, Dirk
author_facet Weishaupt, Fabio
Tilly, Julius F.
Appenrodt, Nils
Fischer, Pascal
Dickmann, Jürgen
Heberling, Dirk
contents Automotive self-localization is an essential task for any automated driving function. This means that the vehicle has to reliably know its position and orientation with an accuracy of a few centimeters and degrees, respectively. This paper presents a radar-based approach to self-localization, which exploits fully polarimetric scattering information for robust landmark detection. The proposed method requires no input from sensors other than radar during localization for a given map. By association of landmark observations with map landmarks, the vehicle's position is inferred. Abstract point- and line-shaped landmarks allow for compact map sizes and, in combination with the factor graph formulation used, for an efficient implementation. Evaluation of extensive real-world experiments in diverse environments shows a promising overall localization performance of $0.12 \text{m}$ RMS absolute trajectory and $0.43 {}^\circ$ RMS heading error by leveraging the polarimetric information. A comparison of the performance of different levels of polarimetric information proves the advantage in challenging scenarios.
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spellingShingle Landmark-based Vehicle Self-Localization Using Automotive Polarimetric Radars
Weishaupt, Fabio
Tilly, Julius F.
Appenrodt, Nils
Fischer, Pascal
Dickmann, Jürgen
Heberling, Dirk
Robotics
Signal Processing
Automotive self-localization is an essential task for any automated driving function. This means that the vehicle has to reliably know its position and orientation with an accuracy of a few centimeters and degrees, respectively. This paper presents a radar-based approach to self-localization, which exploits fully polarimetric scattering information for robust landmark detection. The proposed method requires no input from sensors other than radar during localization for a given map. By association of landmark observations with map landmarks, the vehicle's position is inferred. Abstract point- and line-shaped landmarks allow for compact map sizes and, in combination with the factor graph formulation used, for an efficient implementation. Evaluation of extensive real-world experiments in diverse environments shows a promising overall localization performance of $0.12 \text{m}$ RMS absolute trajectory and $0.43 {}^\circ$ RMS heading error by leveraging the polarimetric information. A comparison of the performance of different levels of polarimetric information proves the advantage in challenging scenarios.
title Landmark-based Vehicle Self-Localization Using Automotive Polarimetric Radars
topic Robotics
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05811