arXiv:2505.06517cs.CVcs.RO2025-05

通过长轨迹特征提升低空物联网定位精度,兼顾实时性。

Edge-Enabled VIO with Long-Tracked Features for High-Accuracy Low-Altitude IoT Navigation

  • 引入动态误差解耦机制,重置视觉参考帧消除累积误差
  • 在多个数据集上实现更高定位精度,耗时较短
  • 适合边缘设备上的实时高精度低空导航应用

本文提出一种利用长轨迹特征的视觉惯性里程计(VIO)方法。长轨迹特征可约束更多图像帧,减少定位漂移,但易积累匹配误差并导致跟踪漂移。现有VIO方法基于重投影误差调整观测权重,但该误差依赖于估计的相机位姿和地图点,可能由估计偏差引起而非真实跟踪错误,从而误导优化过程,使长轨迹特征无法有效抑制漂移。此外,长轨迹特征约束帧数多,对系统实时性构成挑战。为此,本文提出主动解耦机制:采用视觉参考帧重置策略消除累积跟踪误差,并设计深度预测策略利用长期约束。为保障实时性能,提出三种高效状态估计策略:基于预定义顺序的并行消除、逆深度简化消除及跳过消除。实验在多个数据集上验证,本方法在相对短耗时下实现更高定位精度,更适用于边缘计算环境下要求高精度与实时性的低空物联网导航。代码将开源至GitHub。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

This paper presents a visual-inertial odometry (VIO) method using long-tracked features. Long-tracked features can constrain more visual frames, reducing localization drift. However, they may also lead to accumulated matching errors and drift in feature tracking. Current VIO methods adjust observation weights based on re-projection errors, yet this approach has flaws. Re-projection errors depend on estimated camera poses and map points, so increased errors might come from estimation inaccuracies, not actual feature tracking errors. This can mislead the optimization process and make long-tracked features ineffective for suppressing localization drift. Furthermore, long-tracked features constrain a larger number of frames, which poses a significant challenge to real-time performance of the system. To tackle these issues, we propose an active decoupling mechanism for accumulated errors in long-tracked feature utilization. We introduce a visual reference frame reset strategy to eliminate accumulated tracking errors and a depth prediction strategy to leverage the long-term constraint. To ensure real time preformane, we implement three strategies for efficient system state estimation: a parallel elimination strategy based on predefined elimination order, an inverse-depth elimination simplification strategy, and an elimination skipping strategy. Experiments on various datasets show that our method offers higher positioning accuracy with relatively short consumption time, making it more suitable for edge-enabled low-altitude IoT navigation, where high-accuracy positioning and real-time operation on edge device are required. The code will be published at github.

VIO边缘计算定位精度实时系统

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