@inproceedings{e646dcb816e042bd859184ffddad4f03,
title = "Autonomous racing: A comparison of SLAM algorithms for large scale outdoor environments",
abstract = "The task of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a widely studied field in robotics research in the last decades. The goal of SLAM is to create an accurate map of the environment considering uncertainties in the pose as well as the environmental perception of the robot. Historically SLAM algorithms are applied in the field of indoor robotics. Recent developments in the area of autonomous driving surge a focus for SLAM applications in large scale outdoor environments. Two notable open source SLAM software packages are Gmapping and Google Cartographer. This paper focuses on a qualitative comparison of the aforementioned algorithms for such a scenario. We discuss the underlying algorithmic differences of the two packages. This serves as the foundation to present the SLAM results for different parameter configurations. We evaluate the accuracy of the resulting maps and the respective computational limitations. The maps are further evaluated against manually measured ground truth track boundaries. We show that the existing approaches can be adapted to large-scale outdoor environments.",
keywords = "Autonomous driving, Cartographer, Gmapping, LIDAR, Large scale SLAM, Perception, Sparse feature SLAM",
author = "Felix Nobis and Johannes Betz and Leonhard Hermansdorfer and Markus Lienkamp",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Association for Computing Machinery.; 3rd International Conference on Virtual and Augmented Reality Simulations, ICVARS 2019 ; Conference date: 23-02-2019 Through 25-02-2019",
year = "2019",
month = feb,
day = "23",
doi = "10.1145/3332305.3332319",
language = "English",
series = "ACM International Conference Proceeding Series",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "82--89",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on Virtual and Augmented Reality Simulations, ICVARS 2019",
}