The invention belongs to the technical field of
laser SLAM, and particularly relates to a
laser SLAM back-end optimization method and device based on lightweight spherical map representation. The method comprises the following steps: generating a
local map represented by a spherical map from a local
point cloud generated by executing an SLAM task by a
laser radar through spherical sampling; and
point cloud-map registration is performed on any
point cloud frame of the local point cloud at the current moment and the
local map at the previous moment as well as any point cloud frame of the local point cloud at the previous moment and the
local map at the current moment, and the point cloud-map registration means that the point cloud frame of the local point cloud at the previous moment and the local map at the current moment are adjusted by adjusting the
pose of the point cloud frame. Enabling the sum of the distances between each point
cloud point in the point cloud frame and the associated plane in the local map to be minimum; and determining the
structural similarity between the local maps based on the difference of the structural features of all fitting planes contained in different local maps, performing
loopback detection on the local maps by integrating the
structural similarity and the
Euclidean distance, and integrally and uniformly adjusting the
pose of each local map forming a
loopback.