Fast Gaussian Process Occupancy Maps
This work addresses a bottleneck for robotics applications requiring real-time occupancy mapping, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing GPOM frameworks.
The paper tackles the computational inefficiency of Gaussian Process Occupancy Mapping (GPOM) for real-time robotics by optimizing the algorithm's steps rather than the Gaussian Process itself, achieving online operation with relatively better quality than classical GPOM.
In this paper, we demonstrate our work on Gaussian Process Occupancy Mapping (GPOM). We concentrate on the inefficiency of the frame computation of the classical GPOM approaches. In robotics, most of the algorithms are required to run in real time. However, the high cost of computation makes the classical GPOM less useful. In this paper we dont try to optimize the Gaussian Process itself, instead, we focus on the application. By analyzing the time cost of each step of the algorithm, we find a way that to reduce the cost while maintaining a good performance compared to the general GPOM framework. From our experiments, we can find that our model enables GPOM to run online and achieve a relatively better quality than the classical GPOM.