Tightly-Coupled Model Aided Visual-Inertial Fusion for Quadrotor Micro Air Vehicles
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The main contribution of this paper is a tightly-coupled visual-inertial fusion algorithm for simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) for a quadrotor micro aerial vehicle (MAV). Proposed algorithm is based on an extended Kalman filter that uses a platform specific dynamic model to integrate information from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a monocular camera on board the MAV. MAV dynamic model exploits the unique characteristics of the quadrotor, making it possible to generate relatively accurate motion predictions. This, together with an undelayed feature initialisation strategy based on inverse depth parametrisation enables more effective feature tracking and reliable visual SLAM with a small number of features even during rapid manoeuvres. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
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