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Likelihood Field Model

tags
Map Matching

Key Idea

Project an individual sensor measurement \(z_t^k\) into the global coordinate frame of map \(m\). Discards max-range readings.

Assumes three types of noise, similar to Range Finder Model:

  1. Measurement noise: Gaussian
  2. Failures: point-mass distribution at \(z_{\text{max}}\)
  3. Random measurements: Uniform distribution \(p_{\text{rand}}\)

The model is a mixture of these 3 densities:

\begin{equation} z_{\mathrm{hit}} \cdot p_{\mathrm{hit}}+z_{\mathrm{rand}} \cdot p_{\mathrm{rand}}+z_{\mathrm{max}} \cdot p_{\mathrm{max}} \end{equation}

Issues

  1. Does not explicitly model dynamic objects that cause short readings
  2. Treats sensors as being able to see through walls: ray casting replaced by nearest neighbour function: incapable of determining whether a path to a point is intercepted by an obstacle in the map
  3. Does not account for map uncertainty

These issues can be addressed via extensions to the algorithm.

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