ISCLOAM

Intensity Scan Context based Full SLAM Implementation (ISC-LOAM)

This work is an implementation of paper "Intensity Scan Context: Coding Intensity and Geometry Relations for Loop Closure Detection" in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2020 (ICRA) paper This work is 3D lidar based Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM), including both front-end and back-end SLAM, at 20Hz.

Author: Wang Han, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

For front-end only odometry, you may visit FLOAM (fast lidar odometry and mapping)

1. Evaluation

1.1. Demo

Watch our demo at Video Link

1.2. Mapping Example

1.3. Localization Example

1.4. Ground Truth Comparison

Green: ISCLOAM Red: Ground Truth

                  KITTI sequence 00                                  KITTI sequence 05

1.5. Localization error

Platform: Intel® Core™ i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz

Average translation error : 1.08%

Average rotation error : 0.000073

1.6. Comparison

Dataset	ISCLOAM	FLOAM
KITTI sequence 00	0.24%	0.51%
KITTI sequence 05	0.22%	0.93%

2. Prerequisites

2.1 Ubuntu and ROS

Ubuntu 64-bit 20.04.

ROS Noetic. ROS Installation

2.2. Ceres Solver

Follow Ceres Installation.

2.3. PCL

Follow PCL Installation.

2.3. GTSAM

Follow GTSAM Installation.

2.3. OPENCV

Follow OPENCV Installation.

2.4. Trajectory visualization

For visualization purpose, this package uses hector trajectory sever, you may install the package by

sudo apt-get install ros-noetic-hector-trajectory-server

Alternatively, you may remove the hector trajectory server node if trajectory visualization is not needed

3. Build

3.1 Clone repository:

cd ~/catkin_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/wh200720041/iscloam.git
cd ..
catkin_make -j1
source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash

3.2 Download test rosbag

Download KITTI sequence 05 (10GB) or KITTI sequence 07 (4GB)

Unzip compressed file 2011_09_30_0018.zip. If your system does not have unzip. please install unzip by

sudo apt-get install unzip 

This may take a few minutes to unzip the file, by default the file location should be /home/user/Downloads/2011_09_30_0018.bag

cd ~/Downloads
unzip ~/Downloads/2011_09_30_0018.zip

3.3 Launch ROS

roslaunch iscloam iscloam.launch

3.4 Mapping Node

if you would like to generate the map of environment at the same time, you can run

roslaunch iscloam iscloam_mapping.launch

Note that the global map can be very large, so it may takes a while to perform global optimization, some lag is expected between trajectory and map since they are running in separate thread. More CPU usage will happen when loop closure is identified.

4. Test other sequence

To generate rosbag file of kitti dataset, you may use the tools provided by kitti_to_rosbag or kitti2bag

5. Other Velodyne sensor

You may use iscloam_velodyne.launch for your own velodyne sensor, such as Velodyne VLP-16.

6. Citation

If you use this work for your research, you may want to cite the paper below, your citation will be appreciated

@inproceedings{wang2020intensity,
  author={H. {Wang} and C. {Wang} and L. {Xie}},
  booktitle={2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)}, 
  title={Intensity Scan Context: Coding Intensity and Geometry Relations for Loop Closure Detection}, 
  year={2020},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={2095-2101},
  doi={10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196764}
}

7.Acknowledgements

Thanks for A-LOAM and LOAM(J. Zhang and S. Singh. LOAM: Lidar Odometry and Mapping in Real-time) and LOAM_NOTED.