Precise LiDAR SLAM in Structured Scene Using Finite Plane and Prior Constraint

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a precise LiDAR SLAM in optimization framework using plane-like object as landmark. Compared to general methods, finite plane feature is used to represent landmark and a new residual model is designed, making constraint from edge of landmark can be used to limit the parallel position between LiDAR and landmark, leading to a more accurate result. Moreover, floor plan is used to provide global pose for reduction of drift, and additionally feature orientation prior is used to prevent map distortion when updating the inaccurate part of floor plan. Experiments are conducted using data collected in real environment. The result qualitatively shows that proposed method can build a corrected map from floor plan without distortion, and quantitatively verifies that proposed method can outperform other baseline methods in accuracy.