Graph-based global robot localization informing situational graphs with architectural graphs

M Shaheer, JA Millan-Romera, H Bavle… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and …, 2023ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a solution for legged robot localization using architectural plans.
Our specific contributions towards this goal are several. Firstly, we develop a method for
converting the plan of a building into what we denote as an architectural graph (A-Graph).
When the robot starts moving in an environment, we assume it has no knowledge about it,
and it estimates an online situational graph representation (S-Graph) of its surroundings. We
develop a novel graph-to-graph matching method, in order to relate the S-Graph estimated …
In this paper, we propose a solution for legged robot localization using architectural plans. Our specific contributions towards this goal are several. Firstly, we develop a method for converting the plan of a building into what we denote as an architectural graph (A-Graph). When the robot starts moving in an environment, we assume it has no knowledge about it, and it estimates an online situational graph representation (S-Graph) of its surroundings. We develop a novel graph-to-graph matching method, in order to relate the S-Graph estimated online from the robot sensors and the A-Graph extracted from the building plans. Note the challenge in this, as the S-Graph may show a partial view of the full A-Graph, their nodes are heterogeneous and their reference frames are different. After the matching, both graphs are aligned and merged, resulting in what we denote as an informed Situational Graph (is-Graph), with which we achieve global robot localization and exploitation of prior knowledge from the building plans. Our experiments show that our pipeline shows a higher robustness and a significantly lower pose error than several LiDAR localization baselines. Paper Video: https://youtu.be/3Pv7y8aOsUY
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