Snake-SLAM is a scalable visual inertial SLAM system for autonomous navigation in low-power aerial devices. The tracking front-end features map reuse, loop closing, relocalization, and supports monocular, stereo, and RGBD input. The keyframes are reduced by a graph-based simplification approach and further refined using a novel deferred mapping stage to ensure a sparse yet accurate global map. The optimization back-end decouples IMU state estimation from visual bundle adjustment and solves them separately in two simplified sub problems. This greatly reduces computational complexity and allows Snake-SLAM to use a larger local window size than existing SLAM methods. Our system implements a novel multistage VI initialization scheme, which uses gyroscope data to detect visual outliers and recovers metric velocity, gravity, and scale. We evaluate Snake-SLAM on the EuRoC dataset and show that it outperforms all other approaches in efficiency while also achieving state-of-the-art tracking accuracy.


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    Title :

    Snake-SLAM: Efficient Global Visual Inertial SLAM using Decoupled Nonlinear Optimization


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    Publication date :

    2021-06-15


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    2647405 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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