Towards lifelong visual maps

  • Authors:
  • Kurt Konolige;James Bowman

  • Affiliations:
  • Willow Garage, Menlo Park, CA;Willow Garage, Menlo Park, CA

  • Venue:
  • IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The typical SLAM mapping system assumes a static environment and constructs a map that is then used without regard for ongoing changes. Most SLAM systems, such as FastSLAM, also require a single connected run to create a map. In this paper we present a system of visual mapping, using only input from a stereo camera, that continually updates an optimized metric map in large indoor spaces with movable objects: people, furniture, partitions, etc. The system can be stopped and restarted at arbitrary disconnected points, is robust to occlusion and localization failures, and efficiently maintains alternative views of a dynamic environment. It operates completely online at a 30 Hz frame rate.