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A Review of Point Cloud Registration Algorithms for Mobile Robotics

2015· review· en· 691 citations· W2271206385 on OpenAlex· 10.1561/2300000035

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Abstract

The topic of this review is geometric registration in robotics. Registration algorithms associate sets of data into a common coordinate system. They have been used extensively in object reconstruction, inspection, medical application, and localization of mobile robotics. We focus on mobile robotics applications in which point clouds are to be registered. While the underlying principle of those algorithms is simple, many variations have been proposed for many different applications. In this review, we give a historical perspective of the registration problem and show that the plethora of solutions can be organized and differentiated according to a few elements. Accordingly, we present a formalization of geometric registration and cast algorithms proposed in the literature into this framework. Finally, we review a few applications of this framework in mobile robotics that cover different kinds of platforms, environments, and tasks. These examples allow us to study the specific requirements of each use case and the necessary configuration choices leading to the registration implementation. Ultimately, the objective of this review is to provide guidelines for the choice of geometric registration configuration.

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The record

Venue
Foundations and Trends in Robotics
Topic
Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
Field
Engineering
Canadian institutions
Funders
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaEuropean Commission
Keywords
RoboticsArtificial intelligenceComputer sciencePoint cloudFocus (optics)Point (geometry)Perspective (graphical)Image registrationObject (grammar)Computer visionMobile robotAlgorithmRobotImage (mathematics)MathematicsGeometry
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