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As one of the core technologies for autonomous navigation, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has attracted widespread attention in recent decades. Based on vision or LiDAR sensors, great efforts have been devoted to achieving real-time SLAM that can support a robot\u2019s state estimation. However, most of the mature SLAM methods generally work under the assumption that the environment is static, while in dynamic environments they will yield degenerate performance or even fail. In this paper, first we quantitatively evaluate the performance of the state-of-the-art LiDAR-based SLAMs taking into account different pattens of moving objects in the environment. Through semi-physical simulation, we observed that the shape, size, and distribution of moving objects all can impact the performance of SLAM significantly, and obtained instructive investigation results by quantitative comparison between LOAM and LeGO-LOAM. Secondly, based on the above investigation, a novel approach named EMO to eliminating the moving objects for SLAM fusing LiDAR and mmW-radar is proposed, towards improving the accuracy and robustness of state estimation. The method fully uses the advantages of different characteristics of two sensors to realize the fusion of sensor information with two different resolutions. The moving objects can be efficiently detected based on Doppler effect by radar, accurately segmented and localized by LiDAR, then filtered out from the point clouds through data association and accurate synchronized in time and space. Finally, the point clouds representing the static environment are used as the input of SLAM. The proposed approach is evaluated through experiments using both semi-physical simulation and real-world datasets. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the method at improving SLAM performance in accuracy (decrease by 30% at least in absolute position error) and robustness in dynamic environments.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21010230","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,1]],"date-time":"2021-01-01T22:35:48Z","timestamp":1609540548000},"page":"230","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":36,"title":["Sensor Fusion-Based Approach to Eliminating Moving Objects for SLAM in Dynamic Environments"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2882-7467","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiangwei","family":"Dang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9096-6049","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zheng","family":"Rong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}]},{"given":"Xingdong","family":"Liang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"429","DOI":"10.3390\/s120100429","article-title":"Sensor Fusion of Monocular Cameras and Laser Range finders for Line-Based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) Tasks in Autonomous Mobile Robots","volume":"12","author":"Zhang","year":"2012","journal-title":"Sensors"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"994","DOI":"10.1109\/LRA.2018.2793357","article-title":"Ultimate SLAM? 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