NDLI: Real-time onboard visual-inertial state estimation and self-calibration of MAVs in unknown environments

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Weiss, S. Achtelik, M.W. Lynen, S. Chli, M. Siegwart, R.
Copyright Year	2012
Description	Author affiliation: ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Chli, M.; Siegwart, R.)
Abstract	The combination of visual and inertial sensors has proved to be very popular in robot navigation and, in particular, Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) navigation due the flexibility in weight, power consumption and low cost it offers. At the same time, coping with the big latency between inertial and visual measurements and processing images in real-time impose great research challenges. Most modern MAV navigation systems avoid to explicitly tackle this by employing a ground station for off-board processing. In this paper, we propose a navigation algorithm for MAVs equipped with a single camera and an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) which is able to run onboard and in real-time. The main focus here is on the proposed speed-estimation module which converts the camera into a metric body-speed sensor using IMU data within an EKF framework. We show how this module can be used for full self-calibration of the sensor suite in real-time. The module is then used both during initialization and as a fall-back solution at tracking failures of a keyframe-based VSLAM module. The latter is based on an existing high-performance algorithm, extended such that it achieves scalable 6DoF pose estimation at constant complexity. Fast onboard speed control is ensured by sole reliance on the optical flow of at least two features in two consecutive camera frames and the corresponding IMU readings. Our nonlinear observability analysis and our real experiments demonstrate that this approach can be used to control a MAV in speed, while we also show results of operation at 40Hz on an onboard Atom computer 1.6 GHz.
Starting Page	957
Ending Page	964
File Size	1595949
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467314039
ISSN	10504729
e-ISBN	9781467314053
e-ISBN	9781467314046
DOI	10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225147
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-05-14
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Navigation Weight measurement Atom optics Optical sensors Robustness Equations Estimation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Artificial Intelligence Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Software

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