Journal
2022 IEEE 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (CASE)
Volume -, Issue -, Pages 1132-1137Publisher
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CASE49997.2022.9926530
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Funding
- National Key R&D Program of China [2019YFB1310805]
- National Science Foundation of China [12175187]
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This research proposes a method for pose estimation using WiFi fingerprint sequence in order to address the challenges faced by LiDAR SLAM in indoor and GPS denied environments. The method exploits the spatial coherence of WiFi signals to correct odometry drift and improves computational efficiency by incorporating LiDAR scans.
Autonomous robots operating in indoor and GPS denied environments can use LiDAR for SLAM instead. However, LiDARs do not perform well in geometrically-degraded environments, due to the challenge of loop closure detection and computational load to perform scan matching. Existing WiFi infrastructure can be exploited for localization and mapping with low hardware and computational cost. Yet, accurate pose estimation using WiFi is challenging as different signal values can be measured at the same location due to the unpredictability of signal propagation. Therefore, we introduce the use of WiFi fingerprint sequence for pose estimation (i.e. loop closure) in SLAM. This approach exploits the spatial coherence of location fingerprints obtained while a mobile robot is moving. This has better capability of correcting odometry drift. The method also incorporates LiDAR scans and thus, improving computational efficiency for large and geometrically-degraded environments while maintaining the accuracy of LiDAR SLAM. We conducted experiments in an indoor environment to illustrate the effectiveness of the method. The results are evaluated based on Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and it has achieved an accuracy of 0.88m for the test environment.
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