Distributed simultaneous localisation and auto-calibration using Gaussian belief propagation
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Author(s)
Murai, Riku
Alzugaray, Ignacio
Kelly, Paul HJ
Davison, Andrew J
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We present a novel scalable, fully distributed, and online method for simultaneous localisation and extrinsic calibration for multi-robot setups. Individual a priori unknown robot poses are probabilistically inferred as robots sense each other while simultaneously calibrating their sensors and markers extrinsic using Gaussian Belief Propagation. In the presented experiments, we show how our method not only yields accurate robot localisation and auto-calibration but also is able to perform under challenging circumstances such as highly noisy measurements, significant communication failures or limited communication range.
Date Issued
2024-03
Date Acceptance
2023-12-18
Citation
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024, 9 (3), pp.2136-2143
ISSN
2377-3766
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
2136
End Page
2143
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Volume
9
Issue
3
Copyright Statement
Copyright © 2024 IEEE. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
License URL
Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/lra.2024.3352361
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2024-01-10