Journal Article

·2012

Improvement of the measurement update step of EKF-SLAM

Zeyneb Kurt YTU , Sırma Yavuz YTU

Abstract

In this study, the measurement update step of the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF)-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is improved. The computational complexity of the measurement uncertainty matrix inversion operation in the measurement update step is reduced via using Jacobi iteration method. It is observed that, the calculation of the measurement uncertainty matrix inverse by using Jacobi iteration method generates numerically more stable results than naive single and batch update operations. Moreover, it produces more accurate results than the results of Cholesky decomposition with less complexity.

Keywords

Cholesky decomposition Extended Kalman filter Simultaneous localization and mapping Inversion (geology) Computer science Kalman filter Minimum degree algorithm Algorithm Inverse Computational complexity theory Matrix decomposition Covariance matrix Matrix (chemical analysis) Mathematical optimization Mathematics Robot Incomplete Cholesky factorization Artificial intelligence Mobile robot

Subject Areas

Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization ·Aerospace Engineering ·Physical Sciences
Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies ·Electrical and Electronic Engineering ·Physical Sciences
Inertial Sensor and Navigation ·Aerospace Engineering ·Physical Sciences

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