Vision-Aided Inertial Navigation for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in GPS-Denied Environments
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This paper presents a vision-aided inertial navigation system for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in GPS-denied environments. During visual estimation, image features in consecutive frames are detected and matched to estimate the motion of the vehicle with a homography-based approach. Afterwards, the visual measurement is fused with the output of an inertial measurement unit (IMU) by an indirect extended Kalman filter (EKF). A delay-based approach for the measurement update is developed to introduce the visual measurement into the fusion without state augmentation. This method supposes that the estimated error state is stable and invariant during the second half of one visual calculation period. Simulation results indicate that delay-based navigation can reduce the computational complexity by about 20% compared with general augmented Vision/INS (inertial navigation system) navigation, with almost the same estimate accuracy. Real experiments were also carried out to test the performance of the proposed navigation system by comparison with the augmented filter method and a referential GPS/INS navigation.
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