Localisation et cartographie simultanées par optimisation de graphe sur architectures hétérogènes pour l’embarqué

Simultaneous Localization And Mapping is the process that allows a robot to build a map of an unknown environment while at the same time it determines the robot position on this map.In this work, we are interested in graph-based SLAM method. This method uses a graph to represent and solve the SLAM problem. A graph optimization consists in finding a graph configuration (trajectory and map) that better matches the constraints introduced by the sensors measurements. Graph optimization is characterized by a high computational complexity that requires high computational and memory resources, particularly to explore large areas. This limits the use of graph-based SLAM in real-time embedded systems. This thesis contributes to the reduction of the graph-based computational complexity. Our approach is based on two complementary axes: data representation in memory and implementation on embedded heterogeneous architectures. In the first axis, we propose an incremental data structure to efficiently represent and then optimize the graph. In the second axis, we explore the use of the recent heterogeneous architectures to speed up graph-based SLAM. We propose an efficient implementation model for embedded applications. We highlight the advantages and disadvantages of the evaluated architectures, namely GPU-based and FPGA-based System-On-Chips.