Autonomous driving and 3D mapping are a few applications associated with real-time six-degrees-of-freedom pose estimation of ground vehicles, especially in outdoor (e.g., urban) environments. During the past decades, many systems have been proposed, with the majority working on data coming from only one sensor, while also struggling to keep accuracy and performance balanced. In this paper, we present D3VIL-SLAM, which extends an existing LiDAR-based SLAM system, ART-SLAM, to include inertial and visual information. The front-end comprises three branches that perform short-term data association, i.e., tracking, by exploiting laser, visual, and inertial data, respectively. All motion estimates and loop constraints derived from both LiDAR scans and images are used to build a robust g2o pose graph, which is later optimized to best satisfy all motion constraints. We compare the accuracy of our system with state-of-the-art SLAM methods, showing that D3VIL-SLAM is more accurate and produces highly detailed 3D maps while retaining real-time performance. Lastly, we perform a brief ablation study with different limitations (e.g., only images are allowed). All experimental campaigns are done by evaluating the estimated trajectory displacement using the KITTI dataset.


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    Title :

    D3VIL-SLAM: 3D Visual Inertial LiDAR SLAM for Outdoor Environments


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    Publication date :

    2023-06-04


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    2537860 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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