Large-Scale Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

Janusz Będkowski is D.Sc. and Ph.D. in mobile robotics. He is a researcher at Polish Academy of Science, Polish Academy of Science, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, and engineer in TomTom International BV. He is actively working on the theoretical and practical aspects of simultaneous localization and mapping applications assuming global scale. Recently, he is working on the methodology of fulfilling the gap between geodesy and cartography, geo science and mobile robotics. He is active member of European Land Robotic Trial (ELROB) and the European Robotics Hackathon (ENRICH).

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Terminology.- Chapter 3. Weighted Non Linear Least Square Optimization.- Chapter 4. Coordinate Systems.- Chapter 5. Mobile mapping data.- Chapter 6. Mobile Mapping Systems.- Chapter 7. Ground truth data sources.- Chapter 8. Trajectory estimation.- Chapter 9. Nearest observations search.- Chapter 10. Camera metrics.- Chapter 11. LiDAR metrics.-  Chapter 12. Constraints.- Chapter 13. Metrics’ fusion.- Chapter 14. Building large scale SLAM optimization.- Chapter 15. Loop closing and change detection.- Chapter 16. Final map qualitative and quantitative evaluation.