Monocular Vision SLAM for Indoor Aerial Vehicles

Autor: Koray Çelik, Arun K. Somani
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vol 2013 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2090-0147
2090-0155
DOI: 10.1155/2013/374165
Popis: This paper presents a novel indoor navigation and ranging strategy via monocular camera. By exploiting the architectural orthogonality of the indoor environments, we introduce a new method to estimate range and vehicle states from a monocular camera for vision-based SLAM. The navigation strategy assumes an indoor or indoor-like manmade environment whose layout is previously unknown, GPS-denied, representable via energy based feature points, and straight architectural lines. We experimentally validate the proposed algorithms on a fully self-contained microaerial vehicle (MAV) with sophisticated on-board image processing and SLAM capabilities. Building and enabling such a small aerial vehicle to fly in tight corridors is a significant technological challenge, especially in the absence of GPS signals and with limited sensing options. Experimental results show that the system is only limited by the capabilities of the camera and environmental entropy.
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