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Polarimetric Covariance Gridmaps for Automotive Self-Localization


Abstract:

Automotive radars are becoming increasingly popular sensors for vehicle self-localization tasks because of their robustness and affordability. Newly available polarimetri...Show More

Abstract:

Automotive radars are becoming increasingly popular sensors for vehicle self-localization tasks because of their robustness and affordability. Newly available polarimetric sensors provide rich information about the occurring scattering mechanisms and thus enhance the uniqueness of landmarks leading to increased reliability. This paper presents a novel approach to incorporate the polarimetric information into a gridmap based on covariance matrices. Thereby, knowledge about up to three different scattering mechanisms per cell can be preserved. Such a discrimination is essential to account for the changing scattering information caused by varying viewing angles with respect to the landmark, which result from the vehicle passing by on the one hand and different mounting positions in a multi-sensor fusion setup on the other. To demonstrate suitability of the covariance representation, an evaluation of the proposed approach based on real-world experiments is presented. A substantial improvement in landmark recognition performance in difficult situations is achieved by taking advantage of the polarimetric covariance information.
Date of Conference: 06-09 July 2020
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 10 September 2020
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Conference Location: Rustenburg, South Africa

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