REAL: Rapid Exploration with Active Loop-Closing toward Large-Scale 3D Mapping using UAVs

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Exploring an unknown environment without colliding with obstacles is one of the essentials of autonomous vehicles to perform diverse missions such as structural inspections, rescues, deliveries, and so forth. Therefore, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which are fast, agile, and have high degrees of freedom, have been widely used. However, previous approaches have two limitations: a) First, they may not be appropriate for exploring large-scale environments because they mainly depend on random sampling-based path planning that causes unnecessary movements. b) Second, they assume the pose estimation is accurate enough, which is the most critical factor in obtaining an accurate map. In this paper, to explore and map unknown large-scale environments rapidly and accurately, we propose a novel exploration method that combines the pre-calculated Peacock Trajectory with graphbased global exploration and active loop-closing. Because the two-step trajectory that considers the kinodynamics of UAVs is used, obstacle avoidance is guaranteed in the recedinghorizon manner. In addition, local exploration that considers the frontier and global exploration based on the graph maximizes the speed of exploration by minimizing unnecessary revisiting. In addition, by actively closing the loop based on the likelihood, pose estimation performance is improved. The proposed method’s performance is verified by exploring 3D simulation environments in comparison with the state-of-the-art methods. Finally, the proposed approach is validated in a real-world experiment.
Publisher
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)
Issue Date
2021-09-27
Language
English
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IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.4191 - 4198

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2153-0858
DOI
10.1109/IROS51168.2021.9636611
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http://hdl.handle.net/10203/289119
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EE-Conference Papers(학술회의논문)
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