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Title: A Visual Inertial Odometry Framework for 3D Points, Lines and Planes
Recovering rigid registration between successive camera poses lies at the heart of 3D reconstruction, SLAM and visual odometry. Registration relies on the ability to compute discriminative 2D features in successive camera images for determining feature correspondences, which is very challenging in feature-poor environments, i.e. low-texture and/or low-light environments. In this paper, we aim to address the challenge of recovering rigid registration between successive camera poses in feature-poor environments in a Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) setting. In addition to inertial sensing, we instrument a small aerial robot with an RGBD camera and propose a framework that unifies the incorporation of 3D geometric entities: points, lines, and planes. The tracked 3D geometric entities provide constraints in an Extended Kalman Filtering framework. We show that by directly exploiting 3D geometric entities, we can achieve improved registration. We demonstrate our approach on different texture-poor environments, with some containing only flat texture-less surfaces providing essentially no 2D features for tracking. In addition, we evaluate how the addition of different 3D geometric entities contributes to improved pose estimation by comparing an estimated pose trajectory to a ground truth pose trajectory obtained from a motion capture system. We consider computationally efficient methods for detecting 3D points, lines more » and planes, since our goal is to implement our approach on small mobile robots, such as drones. « less
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Award ID(s):
1828010
Publication Date:
NSF-PAR ID:
10344405
Journal Name:
2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Page Range or eLocation-ID:
9206 to 9211
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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