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Hierarchical Unsupervised Topological SLAM (2310.04802v1)

Published 7 Oct 2023 in cs.RO

Abstract: In this paper we present a novel framework for unsupervised topological clustering resulting in improved loop. In this paper we present a novel framework for unsupervised topological clustering resulting in improved loop detection and closure for SLAM. A navigating mobile robot clusters its traversal into visually similar topologies where each cluster (topology) contains a set of similar looking images typically observed from spatially adjacent locations. Each such set of spatially adjacent and visually similar grouping of images constitutes a topology obtained without any supervision. We formulate a hierarchical loop discovery strategy that first detects loops at the level of topologies and subsequently at the level of images between the looped topologies. We show over a number of traversals across different Habitat environments that such a hierarchical pipeline significantly improves SOTA image based loop detection and closure methods. Further, as a consequence of improved loop detection, we enhance the loop closure and backend SLAM performance. Such a rendering of a traversal into topological segments is beneficial for downstream tasks such as navigation that can now build a topological graph where spatially adjacent topological clusters are connected by an edge and navigate over such topological graphs.

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