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This repository contains code for running FAST-LIO with Livox Mid 360 in ROS1. Therefore, it is necessary to use Livox ROS Driver2 along with it. You might need to make some modifications to Livox ROS Driver2. If there is an error with building Livox SDK, you can delete the part of ROS2 in CMakelists.txt of Livox SDK2. The process is not difficult. Please refer to the link below for the modifications and proceed accordingly. The link below indicates what needs to be modified from the original FAST_LIO. Thank you.

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이 레포지토리의 코드는 ROS1에서 Livox Mid 360을 통해 FAST-LIO를 수행합니다. 그러므로 Livox ROS Driver2를 반드시 함께 사용해야 합니다. 그러므로 Livox ROS driver2를 일부 수정할 수도 있습니다. Livox SDK 빌드 과정에서 에러가 발생한다면, Livox SDK의 CMakelists.tx에서 ROS2 부분을 지우면 대게 해결됩니다. 과정은 어렵지 않습니다. 아래 링크를 참고하여 수정한 후 원래대로 수행 바랍니다. 아래 링크는 기존의 FAST_LIO에서 어떠한 부분을 수정해야 하는지 나타나 있습니다. 감사합니다.

# 수정 livox_ros_driver -> livox_ros_driver2
# replace livox_ros_driver -> livox_ros_driver2


gedit ~/catkin_ws/src/FAST_LIO/CMakeLists.txt
gedit ~/catkin_ws/src/FAST_LIO/src/preprocess.h
gedit ~/catkin_ws/src/FAST_LIO/src/laseerMapping.cpp

cd ~/catkin_ws && catkin_make # or cm

you can refer to
https://priceless-hyun.tistory.com/141

Original README of FAST-LIO2

Related Works and Extended Application

SLAM:

1. ikd-Tree: A state-of-art dynamic KD-Tree for 3D kNN search.
2. R2LIVE: A high-precision LiDAR-inertial-Vision fusion work using FAST-LIO as LiDAR-inertial front-end.
3. LI_Init: A robust, real-time LiDAR-IMU extrinsic initialization and synchronization package..
4. FAST-LIO-LOCALIZATION: The integration of FAST-LIO with Re-localization function module.

Control and Plan:

1. IKFOM: A Toolbox for fast and high-precision on-manifold Kalman filter.
2. UAV Avoiding Dynamic Obstacles: One of the implementation of FAST-LIO in robot's planning.
3. UGV Demo: Model Predictive Control for Trajectory Tracking on Differentiable Manifolds.
4. Bubble Planner: Planning High-speed Smooth Quadrotor Trajectories using Receding Corridors.

FAST-LIO

FAST-LIO (Fast LiDAR-Inertial Odometry) is a computationally efficient and robust LiDAR-inertial odometry package. It fuses LiDAR feature points with IMU data using a tightly-coupled iterated extended Kalman filter to allow robust navigation in fast-motion, noisy or cluttered environments where degeneration occurs. Our package address many key issues:

1. Fast iterated Kalman filter for odometry optimization;
2. Automaticaly initialized at most steady environments;
3. Parallel KD-Tree Search to decrease the computation;

FAST-LIO 2.0 (2021-07-05 Update)

Related video: FAST-LIO2, FAST-LIO1

Pipeline:

New Features:

1. Incremental mapping using ikd-Tree, achieve faster speed and over 100Hz LiDAR rate.
2. Direct odometry (scan to map) on Raw LiDAR points (feature extraction can be disabled), achieving better accuracy.
3. Since no requirements for feature extraction, FAST-LIO2 can support many types of LiDAR including spinning (Velodyne, Ouster) and solid-state (Livox Avia, Horizon, MID-70) LiDARs, and can be easily extended to support more LiDARs.
4. Support external IMU.
5. Support ARM-based platforms including Khadas VIM3, Nivida TX2, Raspberry Pi 4B(8G RAM).

Related papers:

FAST-LIO2: Fast Direct LiDAR-inertial Odometry

FAST-LIO: A Fast, Robust LiDAR-inertial Odometry Package by Tightly-Coupled Iterated Kalman Filter

Contributors

Wei Xu 徐威，Yixi Cai 蔡逸熙，Dongjiao He 贺东娇，Fangcheng Zhu 朱方程，Jiarong Lin 林家荣，Zheng Liu 刘政, Borong Yuan

1. Prerequisites

1.1 Ubuntu and ROS

Ubuntu >= 16.04

For Ubuntu 18.04 or higher, the default PCL and Eigen is enough for FAST-LIO to work normally.

ROS >= Melodic. ROS Installation

1.2. PCL && Eigen

PCL >= 1.8, Follow PCL Installation.

Eigen >= 3.3.4, Follow Eigen Installation.

1.3. livox_ros_driver

Follow livox_ros_driver Installation.

Remarks:

• Since the FAST-LIO must support Livox serials LiDAR firstly, so the livox_ros_driver must be installed and sourced before run any FAST-LIO luanch file.
• How to source? The easiest way is add the line source $Livox_ros_driver_dir$/devel/setup.bash to the end of file ~/.bashrc, where $Livox_ros_driver_dir$ is the directory of the livox ros driver workspace (should be the ws_livox directory if you completely followed the livox official document).

2. Build

If you want to use docker conatiner to run fastlio2, please install the docker on you machine. Follow Docker Installation.

2.1 Docker Container

User can create a new script with anyname by the following command in linux:

touch <your_custom_name>.sh

Place the following code inside the <your_custom_name>.sh script.

#!/bin/bash
mkdir docker_ws
# Script to run ROS Kinetic with GUI support in Docker

# Allow X server to be accessed from the local machine
xhost +local:

# Container name
CONTAINER_NAME="fastlio2"

# Run the Docker container
docker run -itd \
  --name=$CONTAINER_NAME \
  --user mars_ugv \
  --network host \
  --ipc=host \
  -v /home/$USER/docker_ws:/home/mars_ugv/docker_ws \
  --privileged \
  --env="QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1" \
  --volume="/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro" \
  -v /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb \
  --device=/dev/dri \
  --group-add video \
  -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
  --env="DISPLAY=$DISPLAY" \
  kenny0407/marslab_fastlio2:latest \
  /bin/bash

execute the following command to grant execute permissions to the script, making it runnable:

sudo chmod +x <your_custom_name>.sh

execute the following command to download the image and create the container.

./<your_custom_name>.sh

Script explanation:

• The docker run command provided below creates a container with a tag, using an image from Docker Hub. The download duration for this image can differ depending on the user's network speed.
• This command also establishes a new workspace called docker_ws, which serves as a shared folder between the Docker container and the host machine. This means that if users wish to run the rosbag example, they need to download the rosbag file and place it in the docker_ws directory on their host machine.
• Subsequently, a folder with the same name inside the Docker container will receive this file. Users can then easily play the file within Docker.
• In this example, we've shared the network of the host machine with the Docker container. Consequently, if users execute the rostopic list command, they will observe identical output whether they run it on the host machine or inside the Docker container."

2.2 Build from source

Clone the repository and catkin_make:

    cd ~/$A_ROS_DIR$/src
    git clone https://github.com/hku-mars/FAST_LIO.git
    cd FAST_LIO
    git submodule update --init
    cd ../..
    catkin_make
    source devel/setup.bash

• Remember to source the livox_ros_driver before build (follow 1.3 livox_ros_driver)
• If you want to use a custom build of PCL, add the following line to ~/.bashrc export PCL_ROOT={CUSTOM_PCL_PATH}

3. Directly run

Noted:

A. Please make sure the IMU and LiDAR are Synchronized, that's important.

B. The warning message "Failed to find match for field 'time'." means the timestamps of each LiDAR points are missed in the rosbag file. That is important for the forward propagation and backwark propagation.

C. We recommend to set the extrinsic_est_en to false if the extrinsic is give. As for the extrinsic initiallization, please refer to our recent work: Robust Real-time LiDAR-inertial Initialization.

3.1 For Avia

Connect to your PC to Livox Avia LiDAR by following Livox-ros-driver installation, then

    cd ~/$FAST_LIO_ROS_DIR$
    source devel/setup.bash
    roslaunch fast_lio mapping_avia.launch
    roslaunch livox_ros_driver livox_lidar_msg.launch

• For livox serials, FAST-LIO only support the data collected by the livox_lidar_msg.launch since only its livox_ros_driver/CustomMsg data structure produces the timestamp of each LiDAR point which is very important for the motion undistortion. livox_lidar.launch can not produce it right now.
• If you want to change the frame rate, please modify the publish_freq parameter in the livox_lidar_msg.launch of Livox-ros-driver before make the livox_ros_driver pakage.

3.2 For Livox serials with external IMU

mapping_avia.launch theratically supports mid-70, mid-40 or other livox serial LiDAR, but need to setup some parameters befor run:

Edit config/avia.yaml to set the below parameters:

1. LiDAR point cloud topic name: lid_topic
2. IMU topic name: imu_topic
3. Translational extrinsic: extrinsic_T
4. Rotational extrinsic: extrinsic_R (only support rotation matrix)

• The extrinsic parameters in FAST-LIO is defined as the LiDAR's pose (position and rotation matrix) in IMU body frame (i.e. the IMU is the base frame). They can be found in the official manual.
• FAST-LIO produces a very simple software time sync for livox LiDAR, set parameter time_sync_en to ture to turn on. But turn on ONLY IF external time synchronization is really not possible, since the software time sync cannot make sure accuracy.

3.3 For Velodyne or Ouster (Velodyne as an example)

Step A: Setup before run

Edit config/velodyne.yaml to set the below parameters:

1. LiDAR point cloud topic name: lid_topic
2. IMU topic name: imu_topic (both internal and external, 6-aixes or 9-axies are fine)
3. Set the parameter timestamp_unit based on the unit of time (Velodyne) or t (Ouster) field in PoindCloud2 rostopic
4. Line number (we tested 16, 32 and 64 line, but not tested 128 or above): scan_line
5. Translational extrinsic: extrinsic_T
6. Rotational extrinsic: extrinsic_R (only support rotation matrix)

• The extrinsic parameters in FAST-LIO is defined as the LiDAR's pose (position and rotation matrix) in IMU body frame (i.e. the IMU is the base frame).

Step B: Run below

    cd ~/$FAST_LIO_ROS_DIR$
    source devel/setup.bash
    roslaunch fast_lio mapping_velodyne.launch

Step C: Run LiDAR's ros driver or play rosbag.

3.4 PCD file save

Set pcd_save_enable in launchfile to 1. All the scans (in global frame) will be accumulated and saved to the file FAST_LIO/PCD/scans.pcd after the FAST-LIO is terminated. pcl_viewer scans.pcd can visualize the point clouds.

Tips for pcl_viewer:

• change what to visualize/color by pressing keyboard 1,2,3,4,5 when pcl_viewer is running.

    1 is all random
    2 is X values
    3 is Y values
    4 is Z values
    5 is intensity

4. Rosbag Example

4.1 Livox Avia Rosbag

Files: Can be downloaded from google drive

Run:

roslaunch fast_lio mapping_avia.launch
rosbag play YOUR_DOWNLOADED.bag

4.2 Velodyne HDL-32E Rosbag

NCLT Dataset: Original bin file can be found here.

We produce Rosbag Files and a python script to generate Rosbag files: python3 sensordata_to_rosbag_fastlio.py bin_file_dir bag_name.bag

Run:

roslaunch fast_lio mapping_velodyne.launch
rosbag play YOUR_DOWNLOADED.bag

5.Implementation on UAV

In order to validate the robustness and computational efficiency of FAST-LIO in actual mobile robots, we build a small-scale quadrotor which can carry a Livox Avia LiDAR with 70 degree FoV and a DJI Manifold 2-C onboard computer with a 1.8 GHz Intel i7-8550U CPU and 8 G RAM, as shown in below.

The main structure of this UAV is 3d printed (Aluminum or PLA), the .stl file will be open-sourced in the future.

6.Acknowledgments

Thanks for LOAM(J. Zhang and S. Singh. LOAM: Lidar Odometry and Mapping in Real-time), Livox_Mapping, LINS and Loam_Livox.