arXiv:2604.18289cs.ROcs.CV2026-04

用事件相机检测螺旋桨频率,实现无人机编队高精度相对定位。

Relative State Estimation using Event-Based Propeller Sensing

论文配图:Relative State Estimation using Event-Based Propeller Sensing
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  • 通过事件流追踪螺旋桨区域,分段计算每桨频率作为推力输入
  • 在5个真实户外飞行数据集上误差低于3%,实现高精度相对状态估计
  • 无需依赖视觉特征,适合低延迟、强光照变化的多机协同场景

自主无人机集群需要精确快速的相对状态估计。尽管单目帧基相机在理想条件下表现良好,但存在延迟高、尺度模糊及在视觉挑战环境下表现差等问题。事件相机具备低延迟、高动态范围和微秒级时间分辨率,可有效应对这些挑战。本文提出一种基于事件相机螺旋桨感知的四旋翼相对状态估计框架。通过检测事件流中的螺旋桨区域提取感兴趣区,对区域内事件流按时间块处理以估计各螺旋桨频率。该频率测量作为动力输入驱动运动学状态估计模块,同时结合相机获取的位置观测进行状态更新。此外,利用事件流中提取的几何原型,通过拟合螺旋桨椭圆并反投影,估计四旋翼的姿态(机体倾斜轴)。现有事件基方法多基于模拟飞行序列估计螺旋桨频率,而本方法在五个真实室外飞行序列测试数据集上实现了低于3%的误差,为使用事件相机的多机器人系统提供了去中心化的相对定位方案。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Autonomous swarms of multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system requires an accurate and fast relative state estimation. Although monocular frame-based camera methods perform well in ideal conditions, they are slow, suffer scale ambiguity, and often struggle in visually challenging conditions. The advent of event cameras addresses these challenging tasks by providing low latency, high dynamic range, and microsecond-level temporal resolution. This paper proposes a framework for relative state estimation for quadrotors using event-based propeller sensing. The propellers in the event stream are tracked by detection to extract the region-of-interests. The event streams in these regions are processed in temporal chunks to estimate per-propeller frequencies. These frequency measurements drive a kinematic state estimation module as a thrust input, while camera-derived position measurements provide the update step. Additionally, we use geometric primitives derived from event streams to estimate the orientation of the quadrotor by fitting an ellipse over a propeller and backprojecting it to recover body-frame tilt-axis. The existing event-based approaches for quadrotor state estimation use the propeller frequency in simulated flight sequences. Our approach estimates the propeller frequency under 3% error on a test dataset of five real-world outdoor flight sequences, providing a method for decentralized relative localization for multi-robot systems using event camera.

事件相机无人机定位相对状态估计多机协同

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