arXiv:2409.09904cs.ROcs.CV2024-09ICRA被引 7

用磁力计提升视觉惯性定位精度,尤其在水下洞穴中表现更优。

Enhancing Visual Inertial SLAM with Magnetic Measurements

  • 紧耦合融合磁力计数据,通过相对方向误差优化位姿
  • 水下洞穴实验显示姿态误差显著降低,真实航向可恢复
  • 适合无光照、易漂移的水下或弱光环境使用

本文提出一种将磁力计测量结果紧密融合到视觉惯性里程计(VIO)中的方法。通过最小化重投影误差、相对惯性误差及相对磁力计方向误差,对关键帧滑动窗口进行优化。利用惯性测量单元(IMU)的姿态传播结果,高效地在帧间转换磁力计数据,从而建立相邻帧间的相对方向约束。采用椭球拟合算法校准软硬铁效应。引入磁力计数据后,姿态误差明显减小,并能恢复相对于磁北的真实航向。该框架适用于磁场缓慢变化的环境,主要为室外和水下。研究聚焦于水下洞穴场景,因其狭窄通道与湍流导致回环检测困难,且缺乏环境光照,使传统VIO难以维持定位精度。实验结果表明,所提扩展方法显著提升了水下洞穴中的定位准确性和鲁棒性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

This paper presents an extension to visual inertial odometry (VIO) by introducing tightly-coupled fusion of magnetometer measurements. A sliding window of keyframes is optimized by minimizing re-projection errors, relative inertial errors, and relative magnetometer orientation errors. The results of IMU orientation propagation are used to efficiently transform magnetometer measurements between frames producing relative orientation constraints between consecutive frames. The soft and hard iron effects are calibrated using an ellipsoid fitting algorithm. The introduction of magnetometer data results in significant reductions in the orientation error and also in recovery of the true yaw orientation with respect to the magnetic north. The proposed framework operates in all environments with slow-varying magnetic fields, mainly outdoors and underwater. We have focused our work on the underwater domain, especially in underwater caves, as the narrow passage and turbulent flow make it difficult to perform loop closures and reset the localization drift. The underwater caves present challenges to VIO due to the absence of ambient light and the confined nature of the environment, while also being a crucial source of fresh water and providing valuable historical records. Experimental results from underwater caves demonstrate the improvements in accuracy and robustness introduced by the proposed VIO extension.

SLAM水下定位磁力计惯性导航

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