Mini-drones can be used for a variety of tasks, ranging from weather monitoring to package delivery, search and rescue, and also recreation. In outdoor scenarios, they leverage Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and/or similar systems for localization in order to preserve safety and performance. In indoor scenarios, technologies such as Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (V-SLAM) are used instead. However, more advancements are still required for mini-drone navigation applications, especially in the case of stricter safety requirements. In this research, a novel method for enhancing indoor mini-drone localization performance is proposed. By merging Oriented Rotated Brief SLAM (ORB-SLAM2) and Semi-Direct Monocular Visual Odometry (SVO) via an Adaptive Complementary Filter (ACF), the proposed strategy achieves better position estimates under various conditions (low light in low-surface-texture environments and high flying speed), showing an average percentage error of 18.1% and 25.9% smaller than that of ORB-SLAM and SVO against the ground-truth.


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    Title :

    Improving Visual SLAM by Combining SVO and ORB-SLAM2 with a Complementary Filter to Enhance Indoor Mini-Drone Localization under Varying Conditions


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    Publication date :

    2023




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


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