オンライン重力推定は重要か?LiDAR慣性オドメトリにおける静かな設計分岐の再検討
Does Online Gravity Estimation Matter? Revisiting a Silent Design Split in LiDAR-Inertial Odometry
LiDAR慣性オドメトリにおいて重力をオンライン推定し続けるか固定するかの設計選択を比較し、通常時は差が小さいがLiDAR停止時や動的開始時に影響が出ることを示した。
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著者: Jie Xu, Ziyi Jin, Kangjin Yu, Can Jiang, Hongjun Huang, Tongxing Jin, Hongkun Luo, Zhongpu Xia
分類: cs.RO
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LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO) systems differ in whether they continue estimating gravity after initialization. We compare four gravity-bias state configurations in each of FAST-LIO2 and LIO-SAM, then separately test a gravity-direction factor. Across 12 dataset sequences evaluated with FAST-LIO2, fixing gravity under continuous LiDAR correction produces mean paired changes in vertical and 3D position errors with 90% confidence intervals within $\pm 2\%$. Tests on 4 sequences with LIO-SAM likewise show no consistent benefit from online gravity. Multi-second LiDAR outages, unlike reduced range or field of view, reveal trajectory-dependent costs of fixing gravity. A history-matched 23D-to-21D switch places the repeatable 3D error increase after LiDAR updates resume. Under 5-s outages, a direction factor from the same IMU used for preintegration improves accuracy on Hall05 but worsens both errors with online gravity on TUHH. Dynamic-start tests also show fixed-bias failures at particular starting phases. We recommend keeping gravity and accelerometer bias online for robustness; use a direction factor only after verifying vertical and 3D accuracy gains under the intended operating conditions.