Khronos

This repository will contain the code for Khronos, our framework for online Spatio-Temporal Metric-Semantic SLAM (SMS).

Khronos is a unified approach that can reason about short-term dynamics and long-term changes when performing online metric-semantic simultaneous mapping and localization (SLAM) in dynamic environments. A few instances from Khronos’ spatio-temporal map, representing the scene state at all times, are shown above. Short-term dynamics (left) are shown in magenta and compared against observed human actions over the corresponding time interval. Both humans and inanimate objects (the cart) are detected. Long-term changes (right) are shown for three time instances of the same scene. The earliest instance is at time 0:20 (top right). While the robot is moving through the hallways, a chair is removed and a red cooler is placed on top of the table; these changes are detected as the robot revisits and closes the loop at time 1:52 (bottom right). Lastly, the cooler is removed again, which is detected by the robot at time 3:35.

This project was supported by the Amazon Science Hub “Next-Generation Spatial AI for Human-Centric Robotics” project, the ARL DCIST program, the ONR RAPID program, and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) grant No. 214489.

Table of Contents

Credits

• Paper
• Video

Note The code will be released here shortly.

Setup

• Installation
• Datasets

Examples

• Running Khronos
• Visualizing the 4D map

Paper

If you find this useful for your research, please consider citing our paper:

• Lukas Schmid, Marcus Abate, Yun Chang, and Luca Carlone, "Khronos: A Unified Approach for Spatio-Temporal Metric-Semantic SLAM in Dynamic Environments", in Robotics: Science and Systems, 2024. [ ArXiv | Video ]

   @inproceedings{Schmid2024Khronos,
      title={Khronos: A Unified Approach for Spatio-Temporal Metric-Semantic SLAM in Dynamic Environments}, 
      author={Lukas Schmid and Marcus Abate and Yun Chang and Luca Carlone},
      year={2024},
      booktitle = "Proc. of Robotics: Science and Systems",
   }
  

Video

An overview of Khronos is available on YouTube: