DCReg: Decoupled Characterization for Efficient Degenerate LiDAR Registration
arXiv:2509.06285v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LiDAR point cloud registration is fundamental to robotic perception and navigation. In geometrically degenerate environments (e.g., corridors), registration becomes ill-conditioned: certain motion directions are weakly constrained, causing unstable solutions and degraded accuracy. Existing detect-then-mitigate methods fail to reliably detect, physically interpret, and stabilize this ill-conditioning without corrupting the optimization. We introduce DCReg (Decoupled Characterization for Ill-conditioned Registration), establishing a detect-characterize-mitigate paradigm that systematically addresses ill-conditioned registration via three innovations. First, DCReg achieves reliable ill-conditioning detection by employing Schur complement dec
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Abstract:LiDAR point cloud registration is fundamental to robotic perception and navigation. In geometrically degenerate environments (e.g., corridors), registration becomes ill-conditioned: certain motion directions are weakly constrained, causing unstable solutions and degraded accuracy. Existing detect-then-mitigate methods fail to reliably detect, physically interpret, and stabilize this ill-conditioning without corrupting the optimization. We introduce DCReg (Decoupled Characterization for Ill-conditioned Registration), establishing a detect-characterize-mitigate paradigm that systematically addresses ill-conditioned registration via three innovations. First, DCReg achieves reliable ill-conditioning detection by employing Schur complement decomposition on the Hessian matrix. This decouples the 6-DoF registration into 3-DoF clean rotational and translational subspaces, eliminating coupling effects that mask degeneracy in full-Hessian analyses. Second, within these subspaces, we develop interpretable characterization techniques resolving eigen-basis ambiguities via basis alignment. This establishes stable mappings between eigenspaces and physical motion directions, providing actionable insights on which motions lack constraints and to what extent. Third, leveraging this spectral information, we design a targeted mitigation via a structured preconditioner. Guided by MAP regularization, we implement eigenvalue clamping exclusively within the preconditioner rather than modifying the original problem. This preserves the least-squares objective and minimizer, enabling efficient optimization via Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient with a single interpretable parameter. Experiments demonstrate DCReg achieves 20-50% higher long-duration localization accuracy and 5-30x speedups (up to 116x) over degeneracy-aware baselines across diverse environments. Code: this https URL
Comments: 27 pages, 19 figures, 9 tables
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Robotics (cs.RO)
Cite as: arXiv:2509.06285 [cs.RO]
(or arXiv:2509.06285v2 [cs.RO] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.06285
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From: Xiangcheng Hu [view email] [v1] Mon, 8 Sep 2025 02:12:54 UTC (10,339 KB) [v2] Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:05:53 UTC (10,421 KB)
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