Collaborative SLAM System Based on Shared Priori Maps

Multi-robot system outperforms in efficiency for cooperative task, where the challenging burden of information exchange for surrounding environment is facilitated by collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). However, the utilization of environmental information, i.e., mapping, should be specifically put into efficient use and merged from the viewpoint of computation saving and localization accuracy improvement. Towards these issues, this paper proposes the Collaborative SLAM system based on shared priori maps which includes multi-agent initialization and a new map sharing and reuse mechanism among various active agents in an incremental way. Finally, based on the data set recorded in the actual laboratory environment, the proposed Collaborative SLAM system is evaluated from the perspectives of localization accuracy and computational power consumption.