1 code implementation • 14 Jun 2023 • Matthew McDermott, Jason Rife
In this paper we introduce the Iterative Closest Ellipsoidal Transform (ICET), a novel 3D LIDAR scan-matching algorithm that re-envisions NDT in order to provide robust accuracy prediction from first principles.
no code implementations • 5 Mar 2023 • Liangchun Xu, Jason Rife
This paper investigates the impact of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) and multipath signals on frequency-locked loops (FLLs), which are commonly used to obtain Doppler shift measurements for velocity estimation in radio navigation.
1 code implementation • 8 Nov 2022 • Matthew McDermott, Jason Rife
Distribution-to-distribution (D2D) point cloud registration techniques such as the Normal Distributions Transform (NDT) can align point clouds sampled from unstructured scenes and provide accurate bounds of their own solution error covariance -- an important feature for safety-of-life navigation tasks.
no code implementations • 1 Aug 2022 • Matthew McDermott, Jason Rife
In this paper we propose an approach to mitigate shadowing errors in Lidar scan matching, by introducing a preprocessing step based on spherical gridding.
1 code implementation • 29 Jul 2022 • Matthew McDermott, Jason Rife
Lidar data can be used to generate point clouds for the navigation of autonomous vehicles or mobile robotics platforms.