Multi-robot Simultaneous Localization And Mapping Research Articles

Deep Compressed Communication and Application in Multi-Robot 2D-Lidar SLAM: An Intelligent Huffman Algorithm.

Multi-robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems employing 2D lidar scans are effective for exploration and navigation within GNSS-limited environments. However, scalability concerns arise with larger environments and increased robot numbers, as 2D mapping necessitates substantial processor memory and inter-robot communication bandwidth. Thus, data compression prior to transmission becomes imperative. This study investigates the problem of communication-efficient multi-robot SLAM based on 2D maps and introduces an architecture that enables compressed communication, facilitating the transmission of full maps with significantly reduced bandwidth. We propose a framework employing a lightweight feature extraction Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for a full map, followed by an encoder combining Huffman and Run-Length Encoding (RLE) algorithms to further compress a full map. Subsequently, a lightweight recovery CNN was designed to restore map features. Experimental validation involves applying our compressed communication framework to a two-robot SLAM system. The results demonstrate that our approach reduces communication overhead by 99% while maintaining map quality. This compressed communication strategy effectively addresses bandwidth constraints in multi-robot SLAM scenarios, offering a practical solution for collaborative SLAM applications.

Current study on multi-robot collaborative vision SLAM

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) stands as a vital technology for automatic control of robots. The significance of vision-based multi-robot collaborative SLAM technology is noteworthy in this domain, because visual SLAM uses cameras as the main sensor, which offers the benefits of easy access to environmental information and convenient installation. And the multi-robot system has the advantages of high efficiency, high fault tolerance, and high precision, so the multi-robot system can work in a complex environment and ensure its mapping efficiency, these may be a challenge for a single robot. This paper introduces the principles and common methods of visual SLAM, as well as the main algorithms of multi-robot collaborative SLAM. This paper analyzed the main problems existing in the current multi-robot collaborative visual SLAM technology: multi-robot SLAM task allocation, map fusion and back-end optimization. Then this paper listed different solutions, and analyzed their advantages and disadvantages. In addition, this paper also introduces some future research prospects of multi-robot collaborative visual SLAM technology, aiming to provide a reference direction for subsequent research in related fields.

Simultaneous localization and mapping in a multi-robot system in a dynamic environment with unknown initial correspondence.

A basic assumption in most approaches to simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the static nature of the environment. In recent years, some research has been devoted to the field of SLAM in dynamic environments. However, most of the studies conducted in this field have implemented SLAM by removing and filtering the moving landmarks. Moreover, the use of several robots in large, complex, and dynamic environments can significantly improve performance on the localization and mapping task, which has attracted many researchers to this problem more recently. In multi-robot SLAM, the robots can cooperate in a decentralized manner without the need for a central processing center to obtain their positions and a more precise map of the environment. In this article, a new decentralized approach is presented for multi-robot SLAM problems in dynamic environments with unknown initial correspondence. The proposed method applies a modified Fast-SLAM method, which implements SLAM in a decentralized manner by considering moving landmarks in the environment. Due to the unknown initial correspondence of the robots, a geographical approach is embedded in the proposed algorithm to align and merge their maps. Data association is also embedded in the algorithm; this is performed using the measurement predictions in the SLAM process of each robot. Finally, simulation results are provided to demonstrate the performance of the proposed method.

MR-MD:MULTI-ROBOT MAPPING WITH MANHATTAN DESCRIPTOR

Abstract. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technology, utilizing Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors, is crucial for 3D environment perception and mapping. However, the absence of absolute observations and the inefficiency of single-robot perception present challenges for LiDAR SLAM in indoor environments. In this paper, we propose a multi-robot (MR) collaborative mapping method based on the Manhattan descriptor (MD) named MR-MD to overcome these limitations and improve the perception accuracy of LiDAR SLAM in indoor environments. The proposed method consists of two modules: MD generation and MD optimization. In the first module, each robot builds a local submap and constructs MD by parameterizing the planes in the submap. In the second module, the global main direction is updated using the historical MD of each robot, and constraints are built for each robot's horizontal and vertical directions according to their current MD and optimized. We conducted extensive comparisons with other multi-robot and single-robot LiDAR SLAM methods using real indoor data, and the results show that our method achieved higher mapping accuracy.

Multi-Robot SLAM Using Fast LiDAR Odometry and Mapping

This paper presents an approach to implem enting centralized multirobot simultaneous localization and mapping (MR-SLAM) in an unknown environment based on LiDAR sensors. The suggested implementation addresses two main challenges faced in MR-SLAM, particularly in real-time applications: computing complexity (solving the problem with minimum time and resources) and map merging (finding the alignment between the maps and merging maps by integrating information from the aligned maps into one map). The proposed approach integrates Fast LiDAR and Odometry Mapping (FLOAM), which reduces the computational complexity of localization and mapping for individual robots by adopting a non-iterative two-stage distortion compensation method. This, in turn, accelerates inputs for the map merging algorithm and expedites the creation of a comprehensive map. The map merging algorithm utilizes feature matching techniques, Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), and the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm to estimate the transformation between the maps. Subsequently, the algorithm employs a map-merging graph to estimate the global transformation. Our system has been designed to utilize two robots and has been evaluated on datasets and in a simulated environment using ROS and Gazebo. The system required less computing time to build the global map and achieved good estimation accuracy.

A SLAM Method Based on Multi-Robot Cooperation for Pipeline Environments Underground

SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) technology has recently shown considerable forward progress; however, most of the mainstream SLAM technologies are currently based on laser- and vision-based fusion strategies. However, there are problems (e.g., a lack of geometric structure, no significant feature points in the surrounding environment, LiDAR degradation, and the longitudinal loss of constraints, as well as missing GPS signals within the pipeline) in special circumstances (e.g., in underground pipelines and tunnels), thus making it difficult to apply laser or vision SLAM techniques. To solve this issue, a multi-robot cooperation-based SLAM method is proposed in this study for pipeline environments, based on LIO-SAM. The proposed method can effectively perform SLAM tasks in spaces with high environmental similarity (e.g., tunnels), thus overcoming the limitation that existing SLAM methods have been poorly applied in pipeline environments due to the high environmental similarity. In this study, the laser-matching part of the LIO-SAM is removed, and a high-precision differential odometer, IMU inertial navigation sensor, and an ultrasonic sensor, which are not easily affected by the high similarity of the environment, are employed as the major sources of positioning information. Moreover, a front-to-back queue of two robots is trained in the pipeline environment; a unique period-creep method has been designed as a cooperation strategy between the two robots, and a multi-robot pose constraint factor (ultrasonic range factor) is built to constrain the robots’ relative poses. On that basis, the robot queue can provide a mutual reference when traveling through the pipeline and fulfill its pose correction with high quality, thus achieving high positioning accuracy. To validate the method presented in this study, four experiments were designed, and SLAM testing was performed in common environments, as well as simple and complex urban pipeline environments. Next, error analysis was conducted using EVO. The experimental results suggest that the method proposed in this study is less susceptible to environmental effects than the existing methods due to the benefits of multi-robot cooperation. This applies to a common environment (e.g., a room) and can achieve a good performance; this means that a wide variety of piping environments can be established with high similarity. The average error of SLAM in the pipeline was 0.047 m, and the maximum error was 0.713 m, such that the proposed method shows the advantages of controllable cumulative error, high reliability, and robustness with an increase in the scale of the pipeline and with an extension of the operation time.

LAMP 2.0: A Robust Multi-Robot SLAM System for Operation in Challenging Large-Scale Underground Environments

Search and rescue with a team of heterogeneous mobile robots in unknown and large-scale underground environments requires high-precision localization and mapping. This crucial requirement is faced with many challenges in complex and perceptually-degraded subterranean environments, as the onboard perception system is required to operate in off-nominal conditions (poor visibility due to darkness and dust, rugged and muddy terrain, and the presence of self-similar and ambiguous scenes). In a disaster response scenario and in the absence of prior information about the environment, robots must rely on noisy sensor data and perform Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) to build a 3D map of the environment and localize themselves and potential survivors. To that end, this letter reports on a multi-robot SLAM system developed by team CoSTAR in the context of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. We extend our previous work, LAMP, by incorporating a single-robot front-end interface that is adaptable to different odometry sources and lidar configurations, a scalable multi-robot front-end to support inter- and intra-robot loop closure detection for large scale environments and multi-robot teams, and a robust back-end equipped with an outlier-resilient pose graph optimization based on Graduated Non-Convexity. We provide a detailed ablation study on the multi-robot front-end and back-end, and assess the overall system performance in challenging real-world datasets collected across mines, power plants, and caves in the United States. We also release our multi-robot back-end datasets (and the corresponding ground truth), which can serve as challenging benchmarks for large-scale underground SLAM.

Edge Robotics: Edge-Computing-Accelerated Multirobot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

With the wide penetration of smart robots in multifarious fields, the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technique in robotics has attracted growing attention in the community. Yet collaborating SLAM over multiple robots still remains challenging due to performance contradiction between the intensive graphics computation of SLAM and the limited computing capability of robots. While traditional solutions resort to the powerful cloud servers acting as an external computation provider, we show by real-world measurements that the significant communication overhead in data offloading prevents its practicability to real deployment. To tackle these challenges, this article promotes the emerging edge-computing paradigm into multirobot SLAM and proposes RecSLAM, a multirobot laser SLAM system that focuses on accelerating the map construction process under the robot–edge–cloud architecture. In contrast to the conventional multirobot SLAM that generates graphic maps on robots and completely merges them on the cloud, RecSLAM develops a hierarchical map fusion technique that directs robots’ raw data to edge servers for real-time fusion and then sends to the cloud for global merging. To optimize the overall pipeline, an efficient multirobot SLAM collaborative processing framework is introduced to adaptively optimize robot-to-edge offloading tailored to heterogeneous edge resource conditions, meanwhile ensuring the workload balancing among the edge servers. Extensive evaluations show RecSLAM can achieve up to 39.31% processing latency reduction over the state of the art. Besides, a proof-of-concept prototype is developed and deployed in real scenes to demonstrate its effectiveness.

Kimera-Multi: Robust, Distributed, Dense Metric-Semantic SLAM for Multi-Robot Systems

Multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a crucial capability to obtain timely situational awareness over large areas. Real-world applications demand multi-robot SLAM systems to be robust to perceptual aliasing and to operate under limited communication bandwidth; moreover, it is desirable for these systems to capture semantic information to enable high-level decision-making and spatial artificial intelligence. This article presents <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$ \mathsf{{Kimera-Multi}} $</tex-math></inline-formula> , a multi-robot system that: 1) is robust and capable of identifying and rejecting incorrect inter- and intrarobot loop closures resulting from perceptual aliasing; 2) is fully distributed and only relies on local (peer-to-peer) communication to achieve distributed localization and mapping; and 3) builds a globally consistent metric-semantic 3-D mesh model of the environment in real time, where faces of the mesh are annotated with semantic labels. <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$ \mathsf{{Kimera-Multi}} $</tex-math></inline-formula> is implemented by a team of robots equipped with visual-inertial sensors. Each robot builds a local trajectory estimate and a local mesh using <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$ \mathsf{{Kimera}} $</tex-math></inline-formula> . When communication is available, robots initiate a distributed place recognition and robust pose graph optimization protocol based on a distributed graduated nonconvexity algorithm. The proposed protocol allows the robots to improve their local trajectory estimates by leveraging inter-robot loop closures while being robust to outliers. Finally, each robot uses its improved trajectory estimate to correct the local mesh using mesh deformation techniques. We demonstrate <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$ \mathsf{{Kimera-Multi}} $</tex-math></inline-formula> in photo-realistic simulations, SLAM benchmarking datasets, and challenging outdoor datasets collected using ground robots. Both real and simulated experiments involve long trajectories (e.g., up to 800 m per robot). The experiments show that <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$ \mathsf{{Kimera-Multi}} $</tex-math></inline-formula> : 1) outperforms the state of the art in terms of robustness and accuracy; 2) achieves estimation errors comparable to a centralized SLAM system while being fully distributed; 3) is parsimonious in terms of communication bandwidth; 4) produces accurate metric-semantic 3-D meshes; and 5) is modular and can also be used for standard 3-D reconstruction (i.e., without semantic labels) or for trajectory estimation (i.e., without reconstructing a 3-D mesh).

Multi-Uncertainty Captured Multi-Robot Lidar Odometry and Mapping Framework for Large-Scale Environments

Multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping (MR-SLAM) is of great importance for enhancing the efficiency of large-scale environment exploration. Despite remarkable advances in schemes for cooperation, there is a critical lack of approaches to handle multiple uncertainties inherent to MR-SLAM in large-scale environments. This paper proposes a multi-uncertainty captured multi-robot lidar odometry and mapping (MUC-LOAM) framework, to quantify and utilize the uncertainties of feature points and robot mutual poses in large-scale environments. A proposed hybrid weighting strategy for pose update is integrated into MUC-LOAM to handle feature uncertainty from distance changing and dynamic objects. A devised Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) is proposed to capture mutual pose uncertainty. Then the covariance propagation of quaternions to Euler angles conversion is leveraged to filter out unreliable mutual poses. Another covariance propagation through coordinate transformations in nonlinear optimization improves the accuracy of map merging. The feasibility and enhanced robustness of the proposed framework for large-scale exploration are validated on both public datasets and real-world experiments.

다중 로봇 SLAM을 위한 스펙트럼 기반 PSO를 이용한 격자 지도 병합

This paper addresses the problem of grid map merging for multi-robot SLAM(simultaneous localization and mapping) with LiDAR(light detection and ranging). The problem becomes highly challenging if inter-robot observations, common landmarks, and the knowledge of initial relative poses are not available in the multi-robot SLAM system. This paper proposes an accurate grid map merging method with spectra-based particle swarm optimization (PSO) to solve the problem. Experimental results show that the proposed method can be conducted successfully and acquire a more accurate merged map than the existing methods.

An Online Multi-Robot SLAM System Based on Lidar/UWB Fusion

Cooperation of multiple robots in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems has more advantages compared to single robot configurations such as a faster exploration speed of the environment and the ability to perform tasks with high complexity. In this paper, we present an online multi-robot SLAM system which merges range measurements provided by UWB sensors and Lidar data provided by different mobile robots to build a globally-consistent map that contains individual point cloud maps and the trajectory estimations of all the robots. The proposed system does not require overlaps between robot trajectories. However, when the maps of different robots overlap, the system can further refine the relative robot transformations. The performance of the proposed system is evaluated through two experiments. The results of the experiments show that the proposed system can achieve accurate environment mapping and self-positioning by the cooperation of multiple robots in real-time.

Multi-robot cardinality-balanced multi-Bernoulli filter simultaneous localization and mapping method

In order to improve the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) accuracy of mobile robots in complex indoor environments, the multi-robot cardinality-balanced multi-Bernoulli filter SLAM (MR-CBMber-SLAM) method is proposed. First of all, this method introduces a multi-Bernoulli filter based on the random finite set (RFS) theory to solve the complex data association problem. This method aims to overcome the problem that the multi-Bernoulli filter will overestimate the aspect of SLAM map feature estimation, and combines the strategy of balancing cardinality with a multi-Bernoulli filter. What is more, in order to further improve the accuracy and operating efficiency of SLAM, a multi-robot strategy and a multi-robot Gaussian information-fusion method are proposed. In the experiment, the MR-CBMber-SLAM method is compared with the multi-vehicle probability hypothesis density SLAM (MV-PHD-SLAM) method. The experimental results show that the MR-CBMber-SLAM method is better than MV-PHD-SLAM method. Therefore, it effectively verifies that the MR-CBMber-SLAM method is more adaptable to a complex indoor environment.

Semantic Histogram Based Graph Matching for Real-Time Multi-Robot Global Localization in Large Scale Environment

The core problem of visual multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping (MR-SLAM) is how to efficiently and accurately perform multi-robot global localization (MR-GL). The difficulties are two-fold. The first is the difficulty of global localization for significant viewpoint difference. Appearance-based localization methods tend to fail under large viewpoint changes. Recently, semantic graphs have been utilized to overcome the viewpoint variation problem. However, the methods are highly time-consuming, especially in large-scale environments. This leads to the second difficulty, which is how to perform real-time global localization. In this paper, we propose a semantic histogram-based graph matching method that is robust to viewpoint variation and can achieve real-time global localization. Based on that, we develop a system that can accurately and efficiently perform MR-GL for both homogeneous and heterogeneous robots. The experimental results show that our approach is about 30 times faster than Random Walk based semantic descriptors. Moreover, it achieves an accuracy of 95% for global localization, while the accuracy of the state-of-the-art method is 85%.

Multi-Robot SLAM in Dynamic Environments with Parallel Maps

There is an extensive literature regarding multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping (MRSLAM). In most part of the research, the environment is assumed to be static, while the dynamic parts of the environment degrade the estimation quality of SLAM algorithms and lead to inherently fragile systems. To enhance the performance and robustness of the SLAM in dynamic environments (SLAMIDE), a novel cooperative approach named parallel-map (p-map) SLAM is introduced in this paper. The objective of the proposed method is to deal with the dynamics of the environment, by detecting dynamic parts and preventing the inclusion of them in SLAM estimations. In this approach, each robot builds a limited map in its own vicinity, while the global map is built through a hybrid centralized MRSLAM. The restricted size of the local maps, bounds computational complexity and resources needed to handle a large scale dynamic environment. Using a probabilistic index, the proposed method differentiates between stationary and moving landmarks, based on their relative positions with other parts of the environment. Stationary landmarks are then used to refine a consistent map. The proposed method is evaluated with different levels of dynamism and for each level, the performance is measured in terms of accuracy, robustness, and hardware resources needed to be implemented. The method is also evaluated with a publicly available real-world data-set. Experimental validation along with simulations indicate that the proposed method is able to perform consistent SLAM in a dynamic environment, suggesting its feasibility for MRSLAM applications.

Multirobot Collaborative Monocular SLAM Utilizing Rendezvous

Multirobot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) requires technical ingredients such as systematic construction of multiple SLAM systems and collection of information from each robot. In particular, map fusion is an essential process of multirobot SLAM that combines multiple local maps estimated by team robots into a global map. Fusion of multiple local maps is usually based on interloop detection that recognizes the same scene visited by multiple robots, or robot rendezvous where a member(s) of a robot team is observed in another member's images. This article proposes a collaborative monocular SLAM including a map fusion algorithm that utilizes rendezvous, which can happen when multirobot team members operate in close proximity. Unlike existing rendezvous-based approaches that require additional sensors, the proposed system uses a monocular camera only. Our system can recognize robot rendezvous using nonstatic features (NSFs) without fiducial markers to identify team robots. NSFs, which are abandoned as outliers in typical SLAM systems for not supporting ego-motion, can include relative bearing measurements between robots in a rendezvous situation. The proposed pipeline consists of the following: first, a feature identification module that extracts the relative bearing measurements between robots from NSFs consisting of anonymous bearing vectors with false positives, and second, a map fusion module that integrates the map from the observer robot with the maps from the observed robots using identified relative measurements. The feature identification module can operate quickly using the proposed alternating minimization algorithm formulated by two subproblems with closed-form solutions. The experimental results confirm that our collaborative monocular SLAM system recognizes rendezvous rapidly and robustly, and fuses local maps of team robots into a global map accurately.

Swarm SLAM: Challenges and Perspectives.

A robot swarm is a decentralized system characterized by locality of sensing and communication, self-organization, and redundancy. These characteristics allow robot swarms to achieve scalability, flexibility and fault tolerance, properties that are especially valuable in the context of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), specifically in unknown environments that evolve over time. So far, research in SLAM has mainly focused on single- and centralized multi-robot systems—i.e., non-swarm systems. While these systems can produce accurate maps, they are typically not scalable, cannot easily adapt to unexpected changes in the environment, and are prone to failure in hostile environments. Swarm SLAM is a promising approach to SLAM as it could leverage the decentralized nature of a robot swarm and achieve scalable, flexible and fault-tolerant exploration and mapping. However, at the moment of writing, swarm SLAM is a rather novel idea and the field lacks definitions, frameworks, and results. In this work, we present the concept of swarm SLAM and its constraints, both from a technical and an economical point of view. In particular, we highlight the main challenges of swarm SLAM for gathering, sharing, and retrieving information. We also discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this approach against traditional multi-robot SLAM. We believe that swarm SLAM will be particularly useful to produce abstract maps such as topological or simple semantic maps and to operate under time or cost constraints.

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Inspection Robots in Water and Sewer Pipe Networks: A Review

At the present time, water and sewer pipe networks are predominantly inspected manually. In the near future, smart cities will perform intelligent autonomous monitoring of buried pipe networks, using teams of small robots. These robots, equipped with all necessary computational facilities and sensors (optical, acoustic, inertial, thermal, pressure and others) will be able to inspect pipes whilst navigating, self-localising and communicating information about the pipe condition and faults such as leaks or blockages to human operators for monitoring and decision support. The predominantly manual inspection of pipe networks will be replaced with teams of autonomous inspection robots that can operate for long periods of time over a large spatial scale. Reliable autonomous navigation and reporting of faults at this scale requires effective localization and mapping, which is the estimation of the robot’s position and its surrounding environment. This survey presents an overview of state-of-the-art works on robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with a focus on water and sewer pipe networks. It considers various aspects of the SLAM problem in pipes, from the motivation, to the water industry requirements, modern SLAM methods, map-types and sensors suited to pipes. Future challenges such as robustness for long term robot operation in pipes are discussed, including how making use of prior knowledge, e.g. geographic information systems (GIS) can be used to build map estimates, and improve multi-robot SLAM in the pipe environment.

A Review on Map-Merging Methods for Typical Map Types in Multiple-Ground-Robot SLAM Solutions.

When multiple robots are involved in the process of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), a global map should be constructed by merging the local maps built by individual robots, so as to provide a better representation of the environment. Hence, the map-merging methods play a crucial rule in multi-robot systems and determine the performance of multi-robot SLAM. This paper looks into the key problem of map merging for multiple-ground-robot SLAM and reviews the typical map-merging methods for several important types of maps in SLAM applications: occupancy grid maps, feature-based maps, and topological maps. These map-merging approaches are classified based on their working mechanism or the type of features they deal with. The concepts and characteristics of these map-merging methods are elaborated in this review. The contents summarized in this paper provide insights and guidance for future multiple-ground-robot SLAM solutions.

A high efficient multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping system using partial computing offloading assisted cloud point registration strategy

The robots using visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system are generally experiencing excessive power consumption and suffer from depletion of battery energy during the course of working. The intensive computation necessary to complete complicated tasks is overwhelming for inexpensive mobile robots with limited on-board resources. To address this problem, a novel task offloading strategy combined with a new dense point cloud map construction method is proposed in this paper, which is firstly used for the improvement of the system especially in indoor scenes. First, we develop a novel strategy to remotely offload computation-intensive tasks to cloud center so that the tasks that could not originally be achieved locally on the resource-limited robot systems become possible. Second, a modified iterative closest point algorithm (ICP), named fitness score hierarchical ICP algorithm (FS-HICP), is developed to accelerate point cloud registration. The correctness, efficiency, and scalability of the proposed strategy are evaluated with both theoretical analysis and experimental simulations. The results show that the proposed method can effectively reduce the energy consumption while increase the computation capability and speed of the multi-robot visual SLAM system, especially in indoor environment.