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Multibeam 3D underwater SLAM with probabilistic registration

This paper describes a pose-based underwater 3D Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) using a multibeam echosounder to produce high consistency underwater maps. The proposed algorithm compounds swath profiles of the seafloor with dead reckoning localization to build surface patches (i.e., point clouds). An Iterative Closest Point (ICP) with a probabilistic implementation is then used to register the point clouds, taking into account their uncertainties. The registration process is divided in two steps: (1) point-to-point association for coarse registration and (2) point-to-plane association for fine registration. The point clouds of the surfaces to be registered are sub-sampled in order to decrease both the computation time and also the potential of falling into local minima during the registration. In addition, a heuristic is used to decrease the complexity of the association step of the ICP from O(n2) to O(n). The performance of the SLAM framework is tested using two real world datasets: First, a 2.5D bathymetric dataset obtained with the usual down-looking multibeam sonar configuration, and second, a full 3D underwater dataset acquired with a multibeam sonar mounted on a pan and tilt unit

This work was supported by the Spanish project DPI2014-57746-C3-3-R (ARCHROV) and two European Commission’s Seventh Framework Program projects: FP7-ICT-2011-7-288704 (MORPH) and FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-312762 (EUROFLEETS2)

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Author: Palomer Vila, Albert
Ridao Rodríguez, Pere
Ribas Romagós, David
Date: 2016 April 20
Abstract: This paper describes a pose-based underwater 3D Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) using a multibeam echosounder to produce high consistency underwater maps. The proposed algorithm compounds swath profiles of the seafloor with dead reckoning localization to build surface patches (i.e., point clouds). An Iterative Closest Point (ICP) with a probabilistic implementation is then used to register the point clouds, taking into account their uncertainties. The registration process is divided in two steps: (1) point-to-point association for coarse registration and (2) point-to-plane association for fine registration. The point clouds of the surfaces to be registered are sub-sampled in order to decrease both the computation time and also the potential of falling into local minima during the registration. In addition, a heuristic is used to decrease the complexity of the association step of the ICP from O(n2) to O(n). The performance of the SLAM framework is tested using two real world datasets: First, a 2.5D bathymetric dataset obtained with the usual down-looking multibeam sonar configuration, and second, a full 3D underwater dataset acquired with a multibeam sonar mounted on a pan and tilt unit
This work was supported by the Spanish project DPI2014-57746-C3-3-R (ARCHROV) and two European Commission’s Seventh Framework Program projects: FP7-ICT-2011-7-288704 (MORPH) and FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-312762 (EUROFLEETS2)
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Document access: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/12530
Language: eng
Publisher: MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)
Collection: info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3390/s16040560
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/eissn/1424-8220
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//DPI2014-57746-C3-3-R/ES/ARQUEOLOGIA MARINA MEDIANTE LA COOPERACION HROV%2FAUV/
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/312762/EU/New operational steps towards an alliance of European research fleets/EUROFLEETS2
Is part of: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/288704/EU/Marine robotic system of self-organizing, logically linked physical nodes/MORPH
Rights: Attribution 4.0 Spain
Rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/es/
Subject: Visualització tridimensional (Informàtica)
Three-dimensional display systems
Vehicles submergibles
Submersibles
Robots autònoms
Autonomous robots
Title: Multibeam 3D underwater SLAM with probabilistic registration
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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