| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 94, 2019
International Symposium on Global Navigation Satellite System 2018 (ISGNSS 2018)
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| Article Number | 02005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Indoor and Urban Navigation | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20199402005 | |
| Published online | 08 May 2019 | |
Stereo visual-inertial odometry with an online calibration and its field testing
1
Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering / Automation and Systems Research Institute, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
2
Hanwha Corporation/Defense, Republic of Korea
* Corresponding author: chanpark@snu.ac.kr
In this paper, we present a visual-inertial odometry (VIO) with an online calibration using a stereo camera in planetary rover localization. We augment the state vector with extrinsic (rigid body transformation) and temporal (time-offset) parameters of a camera-IMU system in a framework of an extended Kalman filter. This is motivated by the fact that when fusing independent systems, it is practically crucial to obtain precise extrinsic and temporal parameters. Unlike the conventional calibration procedures, this method estimates both navigation and calibration states from naturally occurred visual point features during operation. We describe mathematical formulations of the proposed method, and it is evaluated through the author-collected dataset which is recorded by the commercially available visual-inertial sensor installed on the testing rover in the environment lack of vegetation and artificial objects. Our experimental results showed that 3D return position error as 1.54m of total 173m traveled and 10ms of time-offset with the online calibration, while 6.52m of return position error without the online calibration.
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