Details on Scan Matching method used in slam_toolbox
The slamtoolbox documentation states that the scan matcher of Karto SLAM is extremely good; however, it seems the original version of Karto SLAM (which supposedly uses ICP for scan matching) is not as good for large-scale environments, so it has been modified for use in slamtoolbox. Is the scan matching algorithm used in the slam_toolbox implementation of Karto SLAM a variant of ICP or some other method? (It looks like Ceres is used for pose graph optimization when loop closure is detected but not for scan matching itself)
Asked by mp8x on 2023-01-25 14:20:27 UTC
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There's a paper on this you should be able to find. I don't have the title on the tip of my fingers, but I read it years ago when I was starting to work with Karto.
Asked by stevemacenski on 2023-02-07 16:01:03 UTC
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