Skip to main content

Benchmark of Visual and 3D Lidar SLAM Systems in Simulation Environment for Vineyards

  • Conference paper
  • First Online:
Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2021)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 13054))

Included in the following conference series:

Abstract

In this work, we present a comparative analysis of the trajectories estimated from various Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems in a simulation environment for vineyards. Vineyard environment is challenging for SLAM methods, due to visual appearance changes over time, uneven terrain, and repeated visual patterns. For this reason, we created a simulation environment specifically for vineyards to help studying SLAM systems in such a challenging environment. We evaluated the following SLAM systems: LIO-SAM, StaticMapping, ORB-SLAM2, and RTAB-MAP in four different scenarios. The mobile robot used in this study equipped with 2D and 3D lidars, IMU, and RGB-D camera (Kinect v2). The results show good and encouraging performance of RTAB-MAP in such an environment.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 69.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 89.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

Notes

  1. 1.

    github.com/LCAS/bacchus_lcas.

  2. 2.

    wiki.ros.org/rtabmap_ros.

  3. 3.

    sagarobotics.com/.

  4. 4.

    Field: youtu.be/L9ORZNyWdT0. Uneven terrain: youtu.be/L9ORZNyWdT0.

  5. 5.

    github.com/MichaelGrupp/evo.

References

  1. Nørremark, M., Griepentrog, H., Nielsen, J., Søgaard, H.: The development and assessment of the accuracy of an autonomous GPS-based system for intra-row mechanical weed control in row crops. Biosys. Eng. 101(4), 396–410 (2008)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Imperoli, M., Potena, C., Nardi, D., Grisetti, G., Pretto, A.: An effective multi-cue positioning system for agricultural robotics. IEEE Robot. Autom. Lett. 3(4), 3685–3692 (2018)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Aguiar, A.S., dos Santos, F.N., Cunha, J.B., Sobreira, H., Sousa, A.J.: Localization and mapping for robots in agriculture and forestry: a survey. Robotics 9(4), 97 (2020)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Labbé, M., Michaud, F.: RTAB-map as an open-source lidar and visual simultaneous localization and mapping library for large-scale and long-term online operation. J. Field Robot. 36(2), 416–446 (2019)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Shan, T., Englot, B., Meyers, D., Wang, W., Ratti, C., Daniela, R.: LIO-SAM: tightly-coupled lidar inertial odometry via smoothing and mapping. In: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 5135–5142. IEEE (2020)

    Google Scholar 

  6. Liu, E.: Atinfinity: Edwardliuyc/staticmapping: Release for DOI, May 2021

    Google Scholar 

  7. Mur-Artal, R., Tardos, J.D.: ORB-SLAM2: an open-source SLAM system for monocular, stereo, and RGB-D cameras. IEEE Trans. Rob. 33(5), 1255–1262 (2017)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Filipenko, M., Afanasyev, I.: Comparison of various SLAM systems for mobile robot in an indoor environment. In: 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS). IEEE, September 2018

    Google Scholar 

  9. Yagfarov, R., Ivanou, M., Afanasyev, I.: Map comparison of lidar-based 2d SLAM algorithms using precise ground truth. In: 2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV). IEEE, November 2018

    Google Scholar 

  10. Geiger, A., Lenz, P., Urtasun, R.: Are we ready for autonomous driving? the KITTI vision benchmark suite. In: 2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. IEEE, June 2012

    Google Scholar 

  11. Cheein, F.A., Steiner, G., Paina, G.P., Carelli, R.: Optimized EIF-SLAM algorithm for precision agriculture mapping based on stems detection. Comput. Electron. Agric. 78(2), 195–207 (2011)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. Comelli, R., Pire, T., Kofman, E.: Evaluation of visual slam algorithms on agricultural dataset, September 2019

    Google Scholar 

  13. Pire, T., Mujica, M., Civera, J., Kofman, E.: The Rosario dataset: multisensor data for localization and mapping in agricultural environments. Int. J. Robot. Res. 38(6), 633–641 (2019)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  14. Capua, F.R., Sansoni, S., Moreyra, M.L.: Comparative analysis of visual-SLAM algorithms applied to fruit environments. In: 2018 Argentine Conference on Automatic Control (AADECA). IEEE, November 2018

    Google Scholar 

  15. Altuntas, N., Uslu, E., Cakmak, F., Amasyali, M.F., Yavuz, S.: Comparison of 3-dimensional SLAM systems: RTAB-map vs. kintinuous. In: 2017 International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK). IEEE, October 2017

    Google Scholar 

  16. Galvez-López, D., Tardos, J.D.: Bags of binary words for fast place recognition in image sequences. IEEE Trans. Robot. 28(5), 1188–1197 (2012)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  17. He, L., Wang, X., Zhang, H.: M2dp: a novel 3D point cloud descriptor and its application in loop closure detection. In: 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE, October 2016

    Google Scholar 

  18. Kaess, M., Johannsson, H., Roberts, R., Ila, V., Leonard, J., Dellaert, F.: iSAM2: incremental smoothing and mapping with fluid relinearization and incremental variable reordering. In: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. IEEE, May 2011

    Google Scholar 

  19. Prokhorov, D., Zhukov, D., Barinova, O., Anton, K., Vorontsova, A.: Measuring robustness of visual SLAM. In: 2019 16th International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA). IEEE, May 2019

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgement

This work has been supported by the European Commission as part of H2020 under grant number 871704 (BACCHUS).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Ibrahim Hroob .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2021 Springer Nature Switzerland AG

About this paper

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this paper

Hroob, I., Polvara, R., Molina, S., Cielniak, G., Hanheide, M. (2021). Benchmark of Visual and 3D Lidar SLAM Systems in Simulation Environment for Vineyards. In: Fox, C., Gao, J., Ghalamzan Esfahani, A., Saaj, M., Hanheide, M., Parsons, S. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13054. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89177-0_17

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89177-0_17

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-030-89176-3

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-030-89177-0

  • eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics