Long-term localization using semantic cues in floor plan maps

N Zimmerman, T Guadagnino, X Chen… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lifelong localization in a given map is an essential capability for autonomous service robots.
In this letter, we consider the task of long-term localization in a changing indoor environment
given sparse CAD floor plans. The commonly used pre-built maps from the robot sensors
may increase the cost and time of deployment. Furthermore, their detailed nature requires
that they are updated when significant changes occur. We address the difficulty of
localization when the correspondence between the map and the observations is low due to …
Lifelong localization in a given map is an essential capability for autonomous service robots. In this letter, we consider the task of long-term localization in a changing indoor environment given sparse CAD floor plans. The commonly used pre-built maps from the robot sensors may increase the cost and time of deployment. Furthermore, their detailed nature requires that they are updated when significant changes occur. We address the difficulty of localization when the correspondence between the map and the observations is low due to the sparsity of the CAD map and the changing environment. To overcome both challenges, we propose to exploit semantic cues that are commonly present in human-oriented spaces. These semantic cues can be detected using RGB cameras by utilizing object detection, and are matched against an easy-to-update, abstract semantic map. The semantic information is integrated into a Monte Carlo localization framework using a particle filter that operates on 2D LiDAR scans and camera data. We provide a long-term localization solution and a semantic map format, for environments that undergo changes to their interior structure and detailed geometric maps are not available. We evaluate our localization framework on multiple challenging indoor scenarios in an office environment, taken weeks apart. The experiments suggest that our approach is robust to structural changes and can run on an onboard computer. We released the open source implementation of our approach written in C++ together with a ROS wrapper.
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