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Toward long-term, automated ship hull inspection with visual SLAM, explicit surface optimization, and generic graph-sparsification
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Paul Ozog and Ryan M. Eustice, Toward long-term, automated ship hull inspection with visual SLAM, explicit surface optimization, and generic graph-sparsification. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages 3832-3839, Hong Kong, China, June 2014.Abstract
This paper reports on a method for an autonomous underwater vehicle to perform real-time visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) on large ship hulls over multiple sessions. Along with a monocular camera, our method uses a piecewise-planar model to explicitly optimize the ship hull surface in our factor-graph framework, and anchor nodes to co-register multiple surveys. To enable real-time performance for long-term SLAM, we use the recent Generic Linear Constraints (GLC) framework to sparsify our factor-graph. This paper analyzes how our single-session SLAM techniques can be used in the GLC framework, and describes a particle filter reacquisition algorithm so that an underwater session can be automatically re-localized to a previously built SLAM graph. We provide real-world experimental results involving automated ship hull inspection, and show that our localization filter outperforms Fast Appearance-Based Mapping (FAB-MAP), a popular place-recognition system. Using our approach, we can automatically align surveys that were taken days, months, and even years apart.
Bibtex entry
@INPROCEEDINGS { pozog-2014a,
AUTHOR = { Paul Ozog and Ryan M. Eustice },
TITLE = { Toward long-term, automated ship hull inspection with visual {SLAM}, explicit surface optimization, and generic graph-sparsification },
BOOKTITLE = { Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation },
YEAR = { 2014 },
MONTH = { June },
ADDRESS = { Hong Kong, China },
PAGES = { 3832--3839 },
}