• DocumentCode
    414004
  • Title

    The effects of partial observability in SLAM

  • Author

    Andrade-Cetto, Juan ; Sanfeliu, Alberto

  • Author_Institution
    Institut de Robotica i Informatica, UPC-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    26 April-1 May 2004
  • Firstpage
    397
  • Abstract
    In this article, we show that partial observability hinders full reconstructibility of the state space in SLAM, making the final map estimate dependent on the initial observations, and not guaranteeing convergence to a positive semi-definite covariance matrix. By characterizing the form of the total Fisher information we are able to determine the unobservable state space directions. To overcome this problem, we formulate new fully observable measurement models that make SLAM stable.
  • Keywords
    covariance matrices; mobile robots; observability; path planning; state-space methods; mobile robots; partial observability; semidefinite covariance matrix; simultaneous localization and map building; state-space directions; Convergence; Filters; Genetic expression; Observability; Simultaneous localization and mapping; Stability; State estimation; State-space methods; Steady-state; Vehicles;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Robotics and Automation, 2004. Proceedings. ICRA '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on
  • ISSN
    1050-4729
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8232-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ROBOT.2004.1307182
  • Filename
    1307182