Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 62, Issue 2, 0215009(2025)

4D Millimeter-Wave Radar SLAM Based on Local Frame Fusion

Yelan Wu1、*, Junjing Zhang1, Chongchong Yu1, Tong Zheng1, Wenbin Feng2,3, Weipeng Zhang1, and Kaitai Xiao2,3
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  • 1School of Computer and Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048,China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Coal Mine Safety Technology, Fushun 113122, Liaoning China
  • 3CCTEG Shenyang Research Institute, Fushun 113122, Liaoning China
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    Regarding the issues in four-dimensional (4D) millimeter-wave radar simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), such as sparse point clouds, instability, and high noise levels, which result in difficulties in point-cloud matching and large cumulative errors, a 4D millimeter-wave radar SLAM algorithm based on local frame fusion is proposed for the 4DRadarSLAM algorithm framework. First, the ego-velocity was estimated to remove noise points and local frame fusion was performed using the pose-transformation relationship of consecutive frames to address sparse point clouds. Subsequently, secondary scan matching was implemented on single and fusion frames to optimize the pose and improve the positioning accuracy of the odometer. Second, the intensity information of radar point clouds was used to construct a scan context descriptor. Combining the average relative error and point-cloud-distribution error to calculate the similarity yields the closed-loop constraint, which effectively reduces the cumulative error. Finally, the odometer factor and closed-loop factor were combined to construct a factor graph to optimize the global pose. Testing and verification results on two types of public datasets from Nanyang Technological University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University show that compared with the 4DRadarSLAM algorithm, the proposed algorithm offers higher accuracy and environmental adaptability, thus providing a new solution for 4D millimeter-wave radar SLAM construction.

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    Yelan Wu, Junjing Zhang, Chongchong Yu, Tong Zheng, Wenbin Feng, Weipeng Zhang, Kaitai Xiao. 4D Millimeter-Wave Radar SLAM Based on Local Frame Fusion[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2025, 62(2): 0215009

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    Paper Information

    Category: Machine Vision

    Received: Oct. 22, 2024

    Accepted: Nov. 18, 2024

    Published Online: Jan. 3, 2025

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    DOI:10.3788/LOP242144

    CSTR:32186.14.LOP242144

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