Hebei Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Transportation Power Grid Intelligent Integration Technology and Equipment, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang 050043, China.
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang 050043, China.
Sensors (Basel). 2023 May 5;23(9):4505. doi: 10.3390/s23094505.
The challenges of point cloud registration in intelligent vehicle driving lie in the large scale, complex distribution, high noise, and strong sparsity of lidar point cloud data. This paper proposes an efficient registration algorithm for large-scale outdoor road scenes by selecting the continuous distribution of key area laser point clouds as the registration point cloud. The algorithm extracts feature descriptions of the key point cloud and introduces local geometric features of the point cloud to complete rough and fine registration under constraints of key point clouds and point cloud features. The algorithm is verified through extensive experiments under multiple scenarios, with an average registration time of 0.5831 s and an average accuracy of 0.06996 m, showing significant improvement compared to other algorithms. The algorithm is also validated through real-vehicle experiments, demonstrating strong versatility, reliability, and efficiency. This research has the potential to improve environment perception capabilities of autonomous vehicles by solving the point cloud registration problem in large outdoor scenes.
点云配准在智能驾驶中的挑战在于激光雷达点云数据规模大、分布复杂、噪声高、稀疏性强。本文提出了一种基于关键区域激光点云连续分布的高效配准算法,选取连续分布的关键区域激光点云作为配准点云。算法提取关键点云的特征描述,并引入点云局部几何特征,在关键点云和点云特征约束下完成粗配准和精配准。通过多种场景下的大量实验验证,该算法的平均配准时间为 0.5831s,平均精度为 0.06996m,与其他算法相比有显著提高。通过实车实验验证了算法的通用性、可靠性和高效性。该研究通过解决大户外场景下的点云配准问题,有望提高自动驾驶车辆的环境感知能力。