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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)9420-9425
Number of pages6
Journal IFAC-PapersOnLine
Volume53
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

Title21st World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
SubtitleAutomatic Control – Meeting Societal Challenges
Abbreviated titleIFAC 2020
Conference number21
Duration12 - 17 July 2020
Locationonline
CityBerlin
CountryGermany

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Keywords

  • Aerial robot, Sensor fusion, State estimation, Visual inertial odometry