<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Inspired by ant foraging, as well as modeling of the feature map and measurements as random finite sets, a novel formulation in an ant colony framework is proposed to jointly estimate the map and the vehicle trajectory so as to solve a feature-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. This so-called ant-PHD-SLAM algorithm allows decomposing the recursion for the joint map-trajectory posterior density into a jointly propagated posterior density of the vehicle trajectory and the posterior density of the feature map conditioned on the vehicle trajectory. More specifically, an ant-PHD filter is proposed to jointly estimate the number of map features and their locations, namely, using the powerful search ability and collective cooperation of ants to complete the PHD-SLAM filter time prediction and data update process. Meanwhile, a novel fast moving ant estimator (F-MAE) is utilized to estimate the maneuvering vehicle trajectory. Evaluation and comparison using several numerical examples show a performance improvement over recently reported approaches. Moreover, the experimental results based on the robot operation system (ROS) platform validate the consistency with the results obtained from numerical simulations.</p></abstract>

Inspired by ant foraging, as well as modeling of the feature map and measurements as random finite sets, a novel formulation in an ant colony framework is proposed to jointly estimate the map and the vehicle trajectory so as to solve a feature-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. This so-called ant-PHD-SLAM algorithm allows decomposing the recursion for the joint map-trajectory posterior density into a jointly propagated posterior density of the vehicle trajectory and the posterior density of the feature map conditioned on the vehicle trajectory. More specifically, an ant-PHD filter is proposed to jointly estimate the number of map features and their locations, namely, using the powerful search ability and collective cooperation of ants to complete the PHD-SLAM filter time prediction and data update process. Meanwhile, a novel fast moving ant estimator (F-MAE) is utilized to estimate the maneuvering vehicle trajectory. Evaluation and comparison using several numerical examples show a performance improvement over recently reported approaches. Moreover, the experimental results based on the robot operation system (ROS) platform validate the consistency with the results obtained from numerical simulations.

An Ant–Based Filtering Random–Finite–Set Approach to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

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Inspired by ant foraging, as well as modeling of the feature map and measurements as random finite sets, a novel formulation in an ant colony framework is...

An Ant–Based Filtering Random–Finite–Set Approach to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

Published Online: Oct 03, 2018

Page range: 505 - 519

Received: Jun 06, 2017

Accepted: Mar 19, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amcs-2018-0039

Keywords
simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), random finite sets, probability hypothesis density, ant colony

© 2018 Demeng Li, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

An Ant–Based Filtering Random–Finite–Set Approach to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

Published Online: Oct 03, 2018

Page range: 505 - 519

Received: Jun 06, 2017

Accepted: Mar 19, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amcs-2018-0039

Keywordssimultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), random finite sets, probability hypothesis density, ant colony

© 2018 Demeng Li, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), random finite sets, probability hypothesis density, ant colony