CURL-MAP: Continuous Mapping and Positioning with CURL Representation†

Kaicheng Zhang,Yining Ding,Shida Xu,Ziyang Hong,Xianwen Kong,Sen Wang,Kaicheng Zhang,Yining Ding,Shida Xu,Ziyang Hong,Xianwen Kong,Sen Wang

Maps of LiDAR Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) are often represented as point clouds. They usually take up a huge amount of storage space for large-scale environments, otherwise much structural detail may not be kept. In this paper, a novel paradigm of LiDAR mapping and odometry is designed by leveraging the Continuous and Ultra-compact Representation of LiDAR (CURL) proposed in [1]. T...