Robotic vision-based framework wherein an on-board camera device is used for scale estimation. Unlike conventional scale estimation methods that require inputs from more than one or more sensors, implementations include a system and method to estimate scale online solely, without any other sensor, for monocular SLAM by using multirotor dynamics model in an extended Kalman filter framework. This approach improves over convention scale estimation methods which require information from some other sensors or knowledge of physical dimension of an object within the camera view. An arbitrary scaled position and an Euler angle of a multirotor are estimated from vision SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) technique. Further, dynamically integrating, computed acceleration to estimate a metric position. A scale factor and a parameter associated with the multirotor dynamics model is obtained by comparing the estimated metric position with the estimated arbitrary position.


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    Title :

    System and method of multirotor dynamics based online scale estimation for monocular vision


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    Publication date :

    2020-08-18


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    G06T Bilddatenverarbeitung oder Bilddatenerzeugung allgemein , IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL / B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge / G01C Messen von Entfernungen, Höhen, Neigungen oder Richtungen , MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS



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