NDLI: Visual odometry on the Mars Exploration Rovers

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Yang Cheng Mark Maimone Larry Matthies
Copyright Year	2005
Description	Author affiliation: Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA (Yang Cheng; Mark Maimone; Larry Matthies)
Abstract	NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) was designed to traverse in Viking Lander-I style terrains: mostly flat, with many small non-obstacle rocks and occasional obstacles. During actual operations in such terrains, onboard position estimates derived solely from the onboard inertial measurement unit and wheel encoder-based odometry achieved well within the design goal of at most 10% error. However, MER vehicles were also driven along slippery slopes tilted as high as 31 degrees. In such conditions an additional capability was employed to maintain a sufficiently accurate onboard position estimate: visual odometry. The MER visual odometry system comprises onboard software for comparing stereo pairs taken by the pointable mast-mounted 45 degree FOV navigation cameras (NAV-CAMs). The system computes an update to the 6-DOF rover pose (x, y, z, roll, pitch, yaw) by tracking the motion of autonomously-selected "interesting" terrain features between two pairs of stereo images, in both 2D pixel and 3D world coordinates. A maximum likelihood estimator is applied to the computed 3D offsets to produce a final, corrected estimate of vehicle motion between the two pairs. In this paper we describe the visual odometry algorithm used on the Mars Exploration Rovers, and summarize its results from the first year of operations on Mars.
Starting Page	903
Ending Page	910
File Size	953344
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780392981
DOI	10.1109/ICSMC.2005.1571261
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2005-10-12
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Mars Motion estimation Measurement units Wheels Vehicle driving Software systems Navigation Cameras Tracking Pixel Egomotion MER Mars Exploration Rover Visual Odometry Motion Estimation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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