Stereo Visual Inertial Odometry for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Autonomous Flight

Quanpan Liu, Zhengjie Wang*, Huan Wang

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Visual–inertial SLAM system is very popular in the near decade for the navigation of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system, because it is effective in the environments without the Global Position System (GPS). Due to size and weight constraints, only inexpensive and small sensors can be used. Therefore, there are still challenges in the computational efficiency and robustness of MAV autonomous flight algorithm. We present S-VIO: an optimization-based stereo visual-inertial odometry. Our approach starts with inertial measurement units (IMU) pre-integration, in which IMU measurements is accumulated between several frames using measurement pre-integration. After the initial state estimation converges, a highly precision stereo vision-inertial odometry is obtained by fusing IMU measurements and feature observations. Our approach is validated on the EuRoC MAV datasets. Experimental results prove that our S-VIO has higher accuracy and robustness than the most advanced visual-inertial fusion methods in some challenging situations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2019 Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference - Volume II
EditorsYingmin Jia, Junping Du, Weicun Zhang
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages550-562
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9789813296855
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
EventChinese Intelligent Systems Conference, CISC 2019 - Haikou, China
Duration: 26 Oct 201927 Oct 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume593
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

ConferenceChinese Intelligent Systems Conference, CISC 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHaikou
Period26/10/1927/10/19

Keywords

  • IMU pre-integration
  • Navigation of UAV
  • SLAM
  • Stereo camera
  • Visual-inertial odometry

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