Stereo visual-inertial fusion for UAV state estimation
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Abstract
Visual-inertial fusion is frequently used for state estimation in aerial robotic applications due to the low-cost, simple hardware setup as well as the high accuracy. This work proposes a stereo visual-inertial fusion system based on the monocular method VINS-Mono, which tightly combines the visual and inertial measurements. Timing statistics are provided for the system running on an Intel NUC Mini-PC. The system real-time capability fulfills the requirements of the closed-loop control for a UAV. The proposed fusion system is evaluated in the public EuRoC MAV dataset and compared with several representative state-of-the-art open-sourced state estimators. According to the results, our method achieves competitive performance with relative low estimation errors in a computationally efficient manner.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 9420-9425 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | IFAC-PapersOnLine |
| Volume | 53 |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Conference
| Title | 21st World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control |
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| Subtitle | Automatic Control – Meeting Societal Challenges |
| Abbreviated title | IFAC 2020 |
| Conference number | 21 |
| Duration | 12 - 17 July 2020 |
| Location | online |
| City | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
Keywords
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Keywords
- Aerial robot, Sensor fusion, State estimation, Visual inertial odometry