Abstract:Point cloud registration is a key step for indoor mobile robot pose estimation scenario building. Current point cloud registration methods hardly work in lowtexture scenes. To improve scene adaptability of indoor mobile robot, this paper proposes a novel improved 3DNDT point cloud registration algorithm this paper proposes an improved ORB algorithm to ensure valid feature extraction in lowtexture scenes; In addition, to improve accuracy and effectivity of point cloud registration, this paper proposes improved 3DNDT algorithm for quick and accurate registration matrix solving. Quantitative results on famous TUM datasets show our system performs as good as or better than other popular solutions (lower RMSE value than 002 m), and time consuming decreases 3 time than traditional 3DNDT algorithm; Notably, our algorithm can work in low texture scenes. Therefore, our algorithm can improve scene adaptability of indoor mobile robot.