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Omnidirectional bats, point-to-plane distances, and the price of uniqueness

Krekovic, Miranda  
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Dokmanic, Ivan  
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Vetterli, Martin  
2017
2017 Ieee International Conference On Acoustics, Speech And Signal Processing (Icassp)
42nd International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

We study simultaneous localization and mapping with a device that uses reflections to measure its distance from walls. Such a device can be realized acoustically with a synchronized collocated source and receiver; it behaves like a bat with no capacity for directional hearing or vocalizing. In this paper we generalize our previous work in 2D, and show that the 3D case is not just a simple extension, but rather a fundamentally different inverse problem. While generically the 2D problem has a unique solution, in 3D uniqueness is always absent in rooms with fewer than nine walls. In addition to the complete characterization of ambiguities which arise due to this non-uniqueness, we propose a robust solution for inexact measurements similar to analogous results for Euclidean Distance Matrices. Our theoretical results have important consequences for the design of collocated range-only SLAM systems, and we support them with an array of computer experiments.

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