A Practical Multi-camera SLAM System for Large Mobile Robots

摘要

It is very important to provide sufficient visual perception for large mobile robots to improve their security and intelligence. Considering the narrow field of vision and insufficient perception of a single camera, this paper proposes a practical multi-camera SLAM system. According to the hardware structure of the large mobile robot, the layout scheme of the multi-camera is designed and its field of view is analyzed. To make full use of the advantages of multi-camera data fusion, a multi-camera localization algorithm based on the main localization module and sub-localization module is proposed. In order to build a dense 3D point cloud map, a novel depth estimation method is present, which first uses the depth estimation method based on camera geometry to obtain a preliminary depth map, and then uses a convolutional neural network to refine it. Comprehensive experiments prove that our multi-camera SLAM system achieves appealing results and has strong practicability.