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LiDAR SLAM is currently the dominant method for creating outdoor environment maps. However, the mainstream LiDAR SLAM algorithms have a single point cloud feature extraction process at the front end, and most of the loop closure detection at the back end is based on RNN (radius nearest neighbor). This results in low mapping accuracy and poor real-time performance. To solve this problem, we integrated the functions of point cloud segmentation and Scan Context loop closure detection based on the advanced LiDAR-inertial SLAM algorithm (LIO-SAM). First, we employed range images to extract ground points from raw LiDAR data, followed by the BFS (breadth-first search) algorithm to cluster non-ground points and downsample outliers. Then, we calculated the curvature to extract planar points from ground points and corner points from clustered segmented non-ground points. Finally, we used the Scan Context method for loop closure detection to improve back-end mapping speed and reduce odometry drift. Experimental validation with the KITTI dataset verified the advantages of the proposed method, and combined with Walking, Park, and other datasets comprehensively verified that the proposed method had good accuracy and real-time performance.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16163099","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,22]],"date-time":"2024-08-22T06:28:51Z","timestamp":1724308131000},"page":"3099","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["An Effective LiDAR-Inertial SLAM-Based Map Construction Method for Outdoor Environments"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Yanjie","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems (HIT), Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"given":"Chao","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems (HIT), Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0008-8295-0400","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Heng","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems (HIT), Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"given":"Yanlong","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems (HIT), Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Li, C., Pan, W.B., Yuan, X.W., Huang, W.Y., Yuan, C., Wang, Q.D., and Wang, F.Y. 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