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Dynamic Covariance Scaling for Robust Map Optimization
Pratik Agarwal, Gian Diego Tipaldi, Luciano Spinello, Cyrill Stachniss, Wolfram Burgard
Workshop on robust and Multimodal Inference in Factor Graphs (ICRA)
2013
agarwal13_icra_ws.pdf



Notes:
Developing the perfect SLAM front-end that produces graphs which are free of outliers is hard to achieve due to perceptual aliasing. Converging to the correct solution is challenging for non-linear error minimization SLAM techniques even in the absence of outliers, if the initial guess is far away from the correct solution. Therefore, optimization back-ends need to be resilient to outliers resulting from an imperfect front-end as well as be robust to bad initialization. In this paper, we present dynamic covariance scaling, a novel approach for effective optimization of constraint networks under the presence of outliers and bad initial guess. The key idea is to use a robust function that generalizes classical gating and down-weights outliers without compromising convergence speed. Compared to recently published state-of-the-art methods, we obtain a substantial speed-up without increasing overheads.


BibTeX:
@inproceedings{agarwal13icraws,
  author = {Pratik Agarwal and Gian Diego Tipaldi and Luciano Spinello and Cyrill Stachniss and Wolfram Burgard},
  title = {Dynamic Covariance Scaling for Robust Robotic
Mapping},
  booktitle = {Workshop on robust and Multimodal Inference in
Factor Graphs, {ICRA}},
  year = 2013,
  month = may,
  doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630557},
  url = {http://ais.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/publications/papers/agarwal13_icra_ws.pdf},
  keyword = {SLAM, Robust optimization},
  address = {Karlsruhe, Germany}
}