DeRO

Dead Reckoning Based on Radar Odometry With Accelerometers Aided for Robot Localization

News / Events

• June 30, 2024 - The paper has been accepted for publication in the IROS 2024 as an oral presentation.
• March 11, 2024 - The manuscript has been online at the arXiv.
• March 05, 2024 - Our paper has been submitted to IROS 2024.

1. Overview

This is a ROS 2 package for DeRO, written in C++. DeRO utilizes 4D point cloud measurements from a millimeter-wave Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar and IMU measurements to estimate the robot's poses. Specifically, Doppler velocity and gyroscope measurements are used to calculate odometry, while the radar's range and accelerometer measurements are utilized to update the estimation using a Stochastic Cloning Extended Kalman Filter (SCEKF).

2. Prerequisites

• Ubuntu 20.04.
• ROS2 Foxy.
• Open-source datasets for reproducing the paper's results can be downloaded from here.
• This package was tested with C++14, PCL 1.10.0, and Eigen 3.3.7.

3. Build

• Clone the repository and build:

mkdir -p ~/ros2_ws/src
cd ~/ros2_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/hoangvietdo/dero
cd ..
colcon build

Note: There will be some warnings, but just ignore them.

4. Run

• Choose the dataset you want to run on (e.g., Carried 1, Carried 2, etc.) and convert the ROS1 bag to ROS2 bag using rosbags-convert.
• Change the value of est_save_dir and bag_dir in the corresponding launch file (e.g., dero_carried_1_ros2bag.launch.py (proposed method) or rio_carried_1_ros2bag.launch.py (compared method))
• In 1st terminal: Execute the launch file

  ros2 launch dero dero_carried_1_ros2bag.launch.py

• In 2nd terminal: Open the rviz config file config/dero_carried_1.rviz using

  rviz2

5. Evaluation

• We use a modified version of rpg_trajectory_evaluation for verifying the filter's performances.
• By default, the .txt file generated from est_save_dir is already compatible with the aforementioned toolbox.
• The pseudo-ground truth is given in results/carried_datasets/laptop/.

6. Credit / Acknowledgements

• This code was written at the Intelligent Navigation and Control Systems Laboratory, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
• Some parts of the code are referenced from REVE, EKF-RIO, and EnVIO.
• This work was supported by the Unmanned Vehicles Core Technology Research and Development Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), Unmanned Vehicle Advanced Research Center (UVARC) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Republic of Korea (No. 2020M3C1C1A01086408 and NRF-2023M3C1C1A01098408).

7. Citation

If you find this work beneficial to your academic research, we would greatly appreciate it if you could reference our paper in your citations.

@INPROCEEDINGS{do2024dero,
	author={Do, Hoang Viet and Kim, Yong Hun and Lee, Joo Han and Lee, Min Ho and Song, Jin Woo},
	booktitle={2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)., to be published}, 
	title={DeRO: Dead Reckoning Based on Radar Odometry With Accelerometers Aided for Robot Localization}, 
	year={},
	volume={},
	number={},
	pages={},
	doi={},
}

8. License

Our source code is released under the GPLv3 license. If there are any issues in our source code please contact the author hoangvietdo@sju.ac.kr.