• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.120-128
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• 2012

The loop closure problem is one of the most challenging issues in the vision-based simultaneous localization and mapping community. It requires the robot to recognize a previously visited place from current camera measurements. While the loop closure often relies on visual bag-of-words based on point features in the previous works, however, in this paper we propose a line-based method to solve the loop closure in the corridor environments. We used both the floor line and the anchored vanishing point as the loop closing feature, and a two-step loop closure algorithm was devised to detect a known place and perform the global pose correction. We propose an anchored vanishing point as a novel loop closure feature, as it includes position information and represents the vanishing points in bi-direction. In our system, the accumulated heading error is reduced using an observation of a previously registered anchored vanishing points firstly, and the observation of known floor lines allows for further pose correction. Experimental results show that our method is very efficient in a structured indoor environment as a suitable loop closure solution.

• 동굴
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• 제82호
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• pp.17-25
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• 2007

The use of a low-frequency cave radio can also verify survey accuracy. A receiving unit on the surface can pinpoint the depth and location of a transmitter in a cave passage by measurement of the geometry of its radio waves. A survey over the surface from the receiver back to the cave entrance forms an artificial loop with the underground survey, whose loop-closure error can then be determined. In the past, caves were reluctant to redraw complex cave maps after detecting survey errors. Today, computer cartography can automatically redraw cave maps after data has been corrected.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.72-81
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• 2023

We introduce tightly-coupled GNSS-LiDAR-Inertial state estimator, which is capable of SLAM (Simultaneously Localization and Mapping) and autonomous driving. Long term drift is one of the main sources of estimation error, and some LiDAR SLAM framework utilize loop closure to overcome this error. However, when loop closing event happens, one's current state could change abruptly and pose some safety issues on drivers. Directly utilizing GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) positioning information could help alleviating this problem, but accurate information is not always available and inaccurate vertical positioning issues still exist. We thus propose our method which tightly couples raw GNSS measurements into LiDAR-Inertial SLAM framework which can handle satellite positioning information regardless of its uncertainty. Also, with NLOS (Non-light-of-sight) satellite signal handling, we can estimate our states more smoothly and accurately. With several autonomous driving tests on AGV (Autonomous Ground Vehicle), we verified that our method can be applied to real-world problem.

• 한국건설관리학회논문집
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.32-42
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• 2016

현재 국내 대부분의 토목 건축 구조물이 BIM 정보가 부재한 상황에서 준공 BIM(as-built BIM)의 수요가 점차 증가하고 있다. 준공 BIM 구축을 위한 공간자료 취득에는 고밀도의 포인트 클라우드를 생성할 수 있는 레이저 스캐너가 주로 활용되고 있다. 하지만 기존의 고정식 스캔 시스템은 이동이 번거롭고, 정밀한 위치 선정이 필요 하며, 스캔 자료 정합을 위해 별도의 표지를 설치하거나 공액점을 추출하는 과정이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 수작업을 최소화하기 위해 기존의 고정식 스캔 시스템을 대체할 수 있는 이동식 스캔 시스템을 제안하고자 하며, 기반 기술로 graph-based SLAM을 적용하였다. 테스트 장비는 총 세 개의 2차원 스캐너를 탑재하고 있으며, 중앙의 한 개는 수평으로 설치되어 graph 구축을 통한 이동경로취득에 사용되었고, 좌우 두 개는 수직으로 설치되어 시스템 진행의 연직 방향으로 주변 구조물에 대한 3차원 스캔 정보 취득에 사용되었다. 개발된 graph-based SLAM은 이동경로 상에 누적된 위치오차를 해소하기 위한 loop closure 처리 방법으로 Adaboost 기계학습을 적용하였다. 이는 특히 본 연구에서 사용한 장비와 같이 기계학습을 위한 다수의 feature 정보를 제공할 수 있는 멀티 스캐너 시스템에 적합한 방식이며, 두 실내공간을 대상으로 한 테스트에서 단일 스캐너 대비 false positive rate를 각각 7.9% 및 13.6%까지 줄일 수 있었다. 최종적으로 연구대상지역의 2차원 및 3차원 지도 구축을 통해 개발된 graph-based SLAM의 효용성을 확인하였다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.391-398
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• 2024

Accurate positioning is essential for unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) operations, particularly for long-term survey missions. To reduce the inherent positioning errors from the inertial navigation systems of UUVs, or dead reckoning, underwater terrain observations from sonar sensors are typically exploited. Within the framework of pose-graph optimization, we can generate submaps of the seafloor and use them to add loop-closure constraints to the pose graph by determining the best match between the submaps. However, this approach results in error accumulation in long-term operations because the quality of local submaps depends on the dead reckoning. Hence, we can adopt external acoustic positioning systems, such as an ultrashort baseline (USBL), to add global constraints to the existing pose graph. We assume that the acoustic transponder is installed on a UUV and that the acoustic transceiver is equipped in an unmanned surface vehicle trailing the UUV to maintain an acoustic connection between the vehicles. We simulate the terrain and USBL measurements as well as evaluate the performance of the UUV's pose estimation via online pose-graph optimization.