提出首个连续时间水下多传感器定位系统,融合声学、视觉与惯性数据。
DIVO: Continuous-time DVL-Inertial-Visual Odometry for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

- 基于高斯过程构建连续时间轨迹估计框架,融合异步的多源传感器数据。
- 在真实水下数据集上优于现有最先进方法,即使仅依赖短时视觉关联仍表现优异。
- 适用于复杂水下环境,支持灵活添加新传感器且无需重新配置。
本文提出一种新颖的声学-视觉-惯性里程计方案,采用连续时间轨迹估计框架,针对无人水下航行器(UUV)设计。水下环境存在光衰减、光照变化及悬浮颗粒等挑战,导致视觉定位与建图困难,因此需引入额外传感模态并设计鲁棒的视觉追踪流程。所提系统是首个基于高斯过程的连续时间轨迹估计框架,可融合来自多普勒测速仪(DVL)、双目相机和惯性测量单元(IMU)的异步观测数据。此外,提出一种新型视觉前端,结合学习型特征提取与匹配机制,有效应对水下特殊环境带来的挑战。该框架支持无缝集成新传感器模态,并可在不同环境下自适应运行,无需重新配置。在真实水下巡检数据集上进行了广泛测试,结果表明,其在精度、鲁棒性和轨迹覆盖范围方面均优于当前最先进的视觉-惯性与声学-视觉-惯性SLAM算法。值得注意的是,尽管仅建立短期视觉数据关联,系统仍显著超越现有最优方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper presents a novel acoustic-visual-inertial odometry solution leveraging a continuous-time trajectory estimation framework for unmanned underwater vehicles. Underwater environments present unique challenges for visual localization and mapping, such as light attenuation, illumination variance, and the presence of particulate matter. This motivates the use of additional sensing modalities and a visual tracking pipeline that is robust to diverse subsea conditions. The proposed system is the first continuous-time trajectory estimation framework based on Gaussian processes to fuse asynchronous measurements from a Doppler velocity log, a stereo camera, and an inertial measurement unit. Additionally, a novel visual frontend is proposed, incorporating learning-based feature extraction and matching that is robust to the specific challenges that subsea environments present. The proposed framework enables seamless integration of additional sensor modalities in continuous-time and is adaptable to different environments without reconfiguration. The proposed system is extensively tested on real-world underwater inspection datasets, where it outperforms state-of-the-art visual-inertial and acoustic-visual-inertial SLAM algorithms in accuracy, robustness, and trajectory coverage. Notably, the proposed system outperforms the state-of-the-art despite only forming short-term visual data associations.
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