5G SLAM with Low-complexity Channel Estimation

Paper in proceeding, 2021

5G millimeter-wave signals are beneficial for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), due to their inherent geometric connection to the propagation environment. Channel estimators can exploit received signals to estimate multipath components in terms of delays and angles, which can be used in localization and mapping. Thus, a good channel estimator is essential for 5G SLAM. This paper presents a novel low-complexity multidimensional ESPRIT-based channel estimator and applies it to a 5G SLAM framework. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed channel estimator can accurately estimate channel information with low computational cost, with limited impact on mapping performance, compared to a tensor-ESPRIT benchmark.