DIVO: 無人水中ビークルのための連続時間DVL-慣性-視覚オドメトリ
DIVO: Continuous-time DVL-Inertial-Visual Odometry for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
水中環境での視覚SLAMの課題に対処するため、ガウス過程に基づく連続時間軌跡推定フレームワークを用いて、ドップラー速度ログ、ステレオカメラ、慣性計測ユニットの非同期計測を統合した新しいオドメトリシステムを提案した。学習ベースの特徴抽出・マッチングを備えた視覚フロントエンドも導入し、実データで既存手法を上回る精度と堅牢性を示した。
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著者: Kyungmin Jung, Angad Bajwa, Junha Yoo, Arturo Del Castillo Bernal, James Richard Forbes
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
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.
