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What is a good approach for outlier rejection during real time data filtering?
It is both acceptable and standard to use camera observations with a Kalman filter if you are talking about landmark positions in pixel or real-world space. Pixel space observations are usually ...
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Understanding Drift in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)
Your intuition is mostly correct. Returning to where you started and re-observing landmarks you mapped earlier is called closing the loop in the SLAM literature. As you mentioned, your uncertainty ...
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Kalman Filter GPS + IMU
This is a complete re-working of the answer I had originally provided. If you're curious, you can check the edit history and see what was posted earlier.
In comments to this question, OP stated that ...
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Which is a good and cheap 3D LIDAR or other options?
There are now some sub and around ~1000USD 3D Lidars available. I wanted to provide an answer for future reference if anyone else comes looking for "cheap" Lidars.
LeddarTech M16 ~500 USD ...
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Robot localization without any sensors
If you know the wheel radius and the speed of the robot, you will be able to calculate its location at any time relatively to its initial position.
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How can my robot find its position in any given map without GPS, including when the initial point is not given?
Determining your location when you have a map but not your starting location is a job for a particle filter.
(Wikipedia's entry on particle filters is not very helpful to beginners.) See also, ...
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Difference between SLAM and Localization
Localization is always done with respect to a map.
SLAM(Simultaneous Localization and Mapping). As it is in the name, also does localization with respect to a map. The only difference is that the ...
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How to have a 'Auto Go Home' feature, like the DJI Phantom 3, on a project built quadcopter?
I would go with one of two-ish methods to do this, but both methods require the craft to know its own position. You could do this with GPS, or an IMU, or any other means or combination of position ...
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Absolute positioning without GPS
I know this is an old question but I will just add a bit to the currently existing answers. First, this is a very complex problem that everyone is trying to tackle, including google with their Tango ...
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Localization of a Robot to find it Coordinates according to the Known Map
Particle filter
According to the OP a robot with at least a distance sensor is available and a map too. That's a nice starting point for developing a hypothesis tracker aka particle filter. At first ...
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How does fast slam creates grid maps?
Grid based FastSlam relies on the same principle that Landmakr based FastSlam. The difference is that we are not working with each grid cell as a landmark, but the whole gridmap itself.
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Integrating GPS into Graph SLAM (how orientation fixed?)
You can use a very low information matrix value at the orientation elements of your state, given that the information matrix is the inverse of the covariance matrix.
The covariance matrix ...
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Understanding and implementing belief space planning
The kalman filter that you've already been using on single robots can be broadened to apply to the swarm of robots. If you previously represented the state of a single robot with 5 variables, and you ...
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Process noise and Measurement noise in Kalman filter
Basically, the relative magnitude between process and measurement noise determines how much to trust a new sensor measurement. In one extreme, if the process noise is zero the kalman filter will ...
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Multi-Rate Sensor Fusion using EKF
Part 1. Use one or the other. Often odometery is used instead of kinematics or dynamics for prediction, at least in my work.
Part 2.
This is handled by the construction of the measurement equation ...
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In EKF-SLAM, why do we even need odometry when there is a more reliable sensor?Also, are all SLAM algorithms feature-based?
Just to add up on this, using odometry to estimate the robot position is much faster than using data from a laser scanner. In most situations, data from a range scanner is handled as a 2D PointCloud. ...
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Plotting location using wheel encoder data
A few things:
I took a look at your data set. Did you make sure you used the time column correctly? The first entry is "1429481388546050050" without the decimal. To make it in seconds, it should be ...
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Linearize a non linear system
The short answer to this question is that linearization won't work, and here's why:
Differential drive robots can be modeled with unicycle dynamics of the form: $$\dot{z}=\left[\begin{matrix}\dot{x}\\...
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Localising a robot placed at an unknown position in a known environment
The problem is that you can't apply path planning until you know where the robot is in the global coordinate frame. There are many localization techniques, and each has its pros/cons; I have used ...
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In vision based localization, is it possible to make multiple vehicles cooperate to improve the estimation of each other?
You can do it by fusion using a Kalman filter:
You have a process model model:
$$
x_t = g(x_{t-1},u_t)
$$
Now, you have multiple measurements of the same process model from different perspectives:
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$p(m|x_t, u_t, x_{t-1})$ What does Thrun mean with the "map probability"?
How do I have to imagine $p(m|x_t,u_t,x_{t-1}$)? In his book, he kind
of just handwaves it...
In SLAM, you need to build two entities, the robot's state (i.e. position and direction) and the map. ...
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Kalman filter for vision based pose estimation: 'good' measurements not improving system covariance
First, let me see if I can summarize your issue to see if I understand correctly:
1) Start in area with bad measurements (high R), get P1
2) Move to area with good measurements (low R)
3) Move back to ...
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Iterative Closest Point for 2-D LIDAR Data
You can use 3D feature descriptors here to register two point clouds. I've personally used two most recent ones that performed well enough for a similar application.
Following are the references to ...
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Mobile robot navigation without static map
I think you're confused on a few points.
Mapping is when you try to build a map, given a known location.
Localizing is when you try to locate yourself, given a known map.
SLAM is simultaneous ...
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Why innovation equation in Extended Kalman filter is called innovation?
From the Wikipedia entry:
In time series analysis (or forecasting) — as conducted in statistics, signal processing, and many other fields — the innovation is the difference between the observed ...
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Calculate the Vehicle corner points given localization
Your vehicle heading is some angle, and the corner is some distance from the rear axle. The best coordinate system to use for angles and distances is polar. So, start with a vehicle layout like:
I'm ...
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Extract laser scan from a map and known location
You can do it manually with a protractor and straight edge - put the center of your protractor on the scanner center, align your protractor's zero-angle mark to the scanner zero, then mark off ticks ...
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World and Map Frame for a real robot
As you've figured, static transforms are valid for fixed offsets such as sensor positions. They are the minimal solution the more complete recommended solution is to setup a robot model. There's ...
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imu vs imu/data
The message type is the same - it's just a different topic name/namespace. For a robot that only has a single topic carrying IMU data, "imu" might be sufficient. However, many robots end up ...
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