Title
Vision-aided inertial navigation with rolling-shutter cameras
Abstract
In this paper, we focus on the problem of pose estimation using measurements from an inertial measurement unit and a rolling-shutter (RS) camera. The challenges posed by RS image capture are typically addressed by using approximate, low-dimensional representations of the camera motion. However, when the motion contains significant accelerations (common in small-scale systems) these representations can lead to loss of accuracy. By contrast, we here describe a different approach, which exploits the inertial measurements to avoid any assumptions on the nature of the trajectory. Instead of parameterizing the trajectory, our approach parameterizes the errors in the trajectory estimates by a low-dimensional model. A key advantage of this approach is that, by using prior knowledge about the estimation errors, it is possible to obtain upper bounds on the modeling inaccuracies incurred by different choices of the parameterization's dimension. These bounds can provide guarantees for the performance of the method, and facilitate addressing the accuracy-efficiency tradeoff. This RS formulation is used in an extended-Kalman-filter estimator for localization in unknown environments. Our results demonstrate that the resulting algorithm outperforms prior work, in terms of accuracy and computational cost. Moreover, we demonstrate that the algorithm makes it possible to use low-cost consumer devices (i.e. smartphones) for high-precision navigation on multiple platforms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1177/0278364914538326
I. J. Robotic Res.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Vision-aided inertial navigation,EKF-based localization,rolling-shutter camera,cellphone localization
Inertial navigation system,Inertial frame of reference,Rolling shutter,Computer vision,Parametrization,Control theory,Pose,Artificial intelligence,Inertial measurement unit,Trajectory,Mathematics,Estimator
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
33
11
0278-3649
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.55
28
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mingyang Li127017.60
Anastasios I. Mourikis2101857.50