Associating Uncertainty With Three-Dimensional Poses for Use in Estimation Problems

Autor: Timothy D. Barfoot, Paul Furgale
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 30:679-693
ISSN: 1941-0468
1552-3098
DOI: 10.1109/tro.2014.2298059
Popis: In this paper, we provide specific and practical approaches to associate uncertainty with $\hbox{4} \times \hbox{4}$ transformation matrices, which is a common representation for pose variables in 3-D space. We show constraint-sensitive means of perturbing transformation matrices using their associated exponential-map generators and demonstrate these tools on three simple-yet-important estimation problems: 1) propagating uncertainty through a compound pose change, 2) fusing multiple measurements of a pose (e.g., for use in pose-graph relaxation), and 3) propagating uncertainty on poses (and landmarks) through a nonlinear camera model. The contribution of the paper is the presentation of the theoretical tools, which can be applied in the analysis of many problems involving 3-D pose and point variables.
Databáze: OpenAIRE