Real-time neural dense elevation mapping for urban terrain with uncertainty estimations

B Yang, Q Zhang, R Geng, L Wang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
B Yang, Q Zhang, R Geng, L Wang, M Liu
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022ieeexplore.ieee.org
Having good knowledge of terrain information is essential for improving the performance of
various downstream tasks on complex terrains, especially for the locomotion and navigation
of legged robots. We present a novel framework for neural urban terrain reconstruction with
uncertainty estimations. It generates dense robot-centric elevation maps online from sparse
LiDAR observations. We design a novel pre-processing and point features representation
approach that ensures high robustness and computational efficiency when integrating …
Having good knowledge of terrain information is essential for improving the performance of various downstream tasks on complex terrains, especially for the locomotion and navigation of legged robots. We present a novel framework for neural urban terrain reconstruction with uncertainty estimations. It generates dense robot-centric elevation maps online from sparse LiDAR observations. We design a novel pre-processing and point features representation approach that ensures high robustness and computational efficiency when integrating multiple point cloud frames. A generative Bayesian model then recovers the detailed terrain structures while simultaneously providing the pixel-wise reconstruction uncertainty. We evaluate the proposed pipeline through both simulation and real-world experiments. Our approach achieves high-quality terrain reconstruction with real-time performance on a mobile platform, and the uncertainty estimates may further benefit the downstream tasks of legged robots.
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