arXiv:2602.19173cs.ROcs.SY2026-02

多机器人协同定位,融合视觉惯性与超宽带测距,无需预标定锚点。

Distributed and Consistent Multi-Robot Visual-Inertial-Ranging Odometry on Lie Groups

  • 基于李群的误差建模,实现多机协同紧耦合融合
  • 在仿真中定位精度显著提升,且支持分布式自标定
  • 适合无预标定环境下的多机器人高鲁棒性定位

在无卫星信号环境下,可靠定位是多机器人系统的核心需求。视觉惯性里程计(VIO)虽轻量且精准,但缺乏全局参考时易产生累积漂移。超宽带(UWB)测距可提供互补的全局观测,但现有多数方法仅适用于单机场景且依赖预标定锚点,实用性受限。本文提出一种分布式协同视觉-惯性-测距里程计(DC-VIRO)框架,通过多机器人间通信,紧耦合融合VIO与UWB数据。将锚点位置显式纳入状态变量以应对标定不确定性,并利用共享锚点观测引入额外几何约束。基于李群上的右不变误差形式,该方法保持了标准VIO的可观测性,确保估计一致性。多机器人仿真结果表明,DC-VIRO显著提升了定位精度与鲁棒性,同时实现了分布式环境下的锚点自标定。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reliable localization is a fundamental requirement for multi-robot systems operating in GPS-denied environments. Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) provides lightweight and accurate motion estimation but suffers from cumulative drift in the absence of global references. Ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging offers complementary global observations, yet most existing UWB-aided VIO methods are designed for single-robot scenarios and rely on pre-calibrated anchors, which limits their robustness in practice. This paper proposes a distributed collaborative visual-inertial-ranging odometry (DC-VIRO) framework that tightly fuses VIO and UWB measurements across multiple robots. Anchor positions are explicitly included in the system state to address calibration uncertainty, while shared anchor observations are exploited through inter-robot communication to provide additional geometric constraints. By leveraging a right-invariant error formulation on Lie groups, the proposed approach preserves the observability properties of standard VIO, ensuring estimator consistency. Simulation results with multiple robots demonstrate that DC-VIRO significantly improves localization accuracy and robustness, while simultaneously enabling anchor self-calibration in distributed settings.

多机器人定位融合自标定

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