Global Optimal Solution to SLAM Problem with Unknown Initial Estimates

Usman Qayyum, Jonghyuk Kim

2012

Abstract

The paper presents a practical approach for finding the globally optimal solution to SLAM. Traditional methods are based upon local optimization based strategies and are highly susceptible to local minima due to non-convex nature of the SLAM problem. We employed the nonlinear global optimization based approach to SLAM by exploiting the theoretical limit on the numbers of local minima. Our work is not reliant on good initial guess, whereas existing approaches in SLAM literature assume good starting point to avoid local minima problem. The paper presents experimental results on different datasets to validate the robustness of the approach, finding the global basin of attraction with unknown initial guess.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Qayyum U. and Kim J. (2012). Global Optimal Solution to SLAM Problem with Unknown Initial Estimates . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8565-21-1, pages 76-83. DOI: 10.5220/0004040100760083

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco12,
author={Usman Qayyum and Jonghyuk Kim},
title={Global Optimal Solution to SLAM Problem with Unknown Initial Estimates},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2012},
pages={76-83},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004040100760083},
isbn={978-989-8565-21-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - Global Optimal Solution to SLAM Problem with Unknown Initial Estimates
SN - 978-989-8565-21-1
AU - Qayyum U.
AU - Kim J.
PY - 2012
SP - 76
EP - 83
DO - 10.5220/0004040100760083