arXiv:2509.10021cs.CVcs.RO2025-09中稿 · publication in the…被引 1

为微型无人机设计高效低功耗视觉惯性里程计,精度提升3.65倍。

Efficient and Accurate Downfacing Visual Inertial Odometry

  • 采用RISC-V超低功耗芯片,量化优化特征追踪算法。
  • 在平面运动中误差降低,ORB追踪使RMSE减少3.65倍。
  • 适合微型无人机实时运行,尤其适用于低速场景。

视觉惯性里程计(VIO)是一种利用相机与惯性测量单元(IMU)感知移动体运动的常用计算机视觉方法。本文针对微小型和纳米级无人机,提出一种高效且高精度的VIO流水线。该设计集成前沿特征检测与跟踪方法(SuperPoint、PX4FLOW、ORB),均针对新兴的RISC-V架构超低功耗并行片上系统(SoC)进行优化与量化。通过引入刚体运动模型,流水线在平面运动场景中显著降低估计误差。在超低功耗SoC上的实测表明,该方案在计算开销与追踪精度方面均满足实时VIO需求。在GAP9低功耗SoC上实现后,使用ORB特征追踪器时,平均RMSE相较基线降低达3.65倍。进一步分析显示,在运动速度低于24像素/帧时,PX4FLOW在保持与ORB相当追踪精度的同时,运行时间更短。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) is a widely used computer vision method that determines an agent's movement through a camera and an IMU sensor. This paper presents an efficient and accurate VIO pipeline optimized for applications on micro- and nano-UAVs. The proposed design incorporates state-of-the-art feature detection and tracking methods (SuperPoint, PX4FLOW, ORB), all optimized and quantized for emerging RISC-V-based ultra-low-power parallel systems on chips (SoCs). Furthermore, by employing a rigid body motion model, the pipeline reduces estimation errors and achieves improved accuracy in planar motion scenarios. The pipeline's suitability for real-time VIO is assessed on an ultra-low-power SoC in terms of compute requirements and tracking accuracy after quantization. The pipeline, including the three feature tracking methods, was implemented on the SoC for real-world validation. This design bridges the gap between high-accuracy VIO pipelines that are traditionally run on computationally powerful systems and lightweight implementations suitable for microcontrollers. The optimized pipeline on the GAP9 low-power SoC demonstrates an average reduction in RMSE of up to a factor of 3.65x over the baseline pipeline when using the ORB feature tracker. The analysis of the computational complexity of the feature trackers further shows that PX4FLOW achieves on-par tracking accuracy with ORB at a lower runtime for movement speeds below 24 pixels/frame.

视觉惯性无人机低功耗特征追踪

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