Adaptive Optimization in Feature-based SLAM Visual Odometry

Authors

Yanan Yu, School of Information Technology and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin 300222, China;
Dunhuang Shi, School of Information Technology and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin 300222, China;
Chunjie Hua, School of Information Technology and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin 300222, China;

Abstract

Abstract: Aiming to reduce the impact of dynamic environments on simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) of mobile robots, an adaptive optimization method in a feature-based visual odometry is proposed. The method helps to improve the invariance of image feature in illumination changing situation and to extract features effectively in areas where the texture information is not sufficient to make contributions to feature matching. Meanwhile, down sampling is applied to establish image pyramids and each scaled image is divided into cells based on a defined rule. Illumination adaptive nonlinear adjustments for each cell are applied to increase the image details, and low-texture area is removed by computing the image gray level probability distribution. Based on the proposed method, a visual odometry of SLAM system is built and verified on TUM dataset. The results show that, compared with the original system, the proposed method can reduce the trajectory errors of a mobile robot and also improve the performance of robot visual odometry in the unstable dynamic environments.

Recommended Citation

Yu, Yanan; Shi, Dunhuang; and Hua, Chunjie (2022) "Adaptive Optimization in Feature-based SLAM Visual Odometry," Journal of System Simulation: Vol. 34: Iss. 1, Article 12.
DOI: 10.16182/j.issn1004731x.joss.20-0424E
Available at: https://dc-china-simulation.researchcommons.org/journal/vol34/iss1/12

First Page

104

Revised Date

2021-03-22

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.16182/j.issn1004731x.joss.20-0424E

Last Page

112

CLC

TP391

Recommended Citation

Yu Yanan, Shi Dunhuang, Hua Chunjie. Adaptive Optimization in Feature-based SLAM Visual Odometry[J]. Journal of System Simulation, 2022, 34(1): 104-112.

DOI

10.16182/j.issn1004731x.joss.20-0424E