BatSLAM 2.0: Sequence-Verified Sonar Place Recognition in a Robust Pose Graph

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Echolocating bats can navigate dark and cluttered spaces using echolocation. Over a decade ago, BatSLAM showed that a robot with a biomimetic binaural sonar can build a topological map of the environment, by recognizing places from the received acoustic signals. Sonar place recognition, however, is ambiguous by nature: corridors produce nearly identical echo trains, and wrong loop closure can collapse the topological map. In this paper, we introduce BatSLAM 2.0, a novel sonar-only SLAM system built from three elements: an updated acoustic front-end, a sequence verifier that tracks and verifies loop closure candidates and a pose graph implemented on a high performance factor graph framework. The system was thoroughly evaluated both in simulated as well as real world recordings. In both cases, the BatSLAM2.0 algorithm shows the capability of robust topological map creation, countering map collapse, and robust scaling of map size.

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