Unmanned aerial vehicle navigation in underground structure inspection: A review

R Zhang, G Hao, K Zhang, Z Li - Geological Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Many years after construction, a number of existing old tunnels and underground structures
are deteriorating with time as evidenced by cracks, large deformations, water leakage and …

Structural Lines Aided Monocular Visual-Inertial-Wheel Odometry With Online IMU-Wheel Extrinsic Optimization on Manifold

C Pang, X Luo, J Wang, Z Fang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the article, we focus on the robustness of monocular visual-inertial-wheel odometry
(VIWO) in urban environments. In the urban environment, the rapid changes in terrain and …

Robust depth-aided visual-inertial-wheel odometry for mobile robots

X Zhao, Q Li, C Wang, H Dou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article introduces visual-depth-inertial-wheel odometry (VDIWO), a robust approach for
real-time localization of mobile robots in indoor and outdoor scenarios. Notably, VDIWO …

Mins: Efficient and robust multisensor-aided inertial navigation system

W Lee, P Geneva, C Chen, G Huang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.15390, 2023 - arxiv.org
Robust multisensor fusion of multi-modal measurements such as IMUs, wheel encoders,
cameras, LiDARs, and GPS holds great potential due to its innate ability to improve …

PIEKF-VIWO: Visual-inertial-wheel odometry using partial invariant extended Kalman filter

T Hua, T Li, L Pei - 2023 IEEE International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (IEKF) has been successfully applied in Visual-inertial
Odometry (VIO) as an advanced achievement of Kalman filter, showing great potential in …

Visual-inertial odometry with online calibration of velocity-control based kinematic motion models

H Li, J Stueckler - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is an important technology for autonomous robots with power
and payload constraints. In this letter, we propose a novel approach for VIO with stereo …

Online IMU-odometer extrinsic calibration based on visual-inertial-odometer fusion for ground vehicles

H Zhao, X Ji, D Wei, J Zhang - 2022 IEEE 12th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aiming at the problem of autonomous positioning for the ground vehicles in the urban areas,
we propose an efficient and practical vehicle positioning method using the measurements …

VIW-Fusion: Extrinsic calibration and pose estimation for visual-IMU-wheel encoder system

C Qiao, S Zhao, Y Zhang, Y Wang… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The data fusion of camera, IMU, and wheel encoder measurements has proved its
effectiveness in localizing ground robots, and obtaining accurate sensor extrinsic …

Gps-aided visual wheel odometry

J Song, PJ Sanchez-Cuevas, A Richard… - 2023 IEEE 26th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a novel GPS-aided visual-wheel odometry (GPS-VWO) for ground
robots. The state estimation algorithm tightly fuses visual, wheeled encoder and GPS …

Vehicle-Motion-Constraint-Based Visual-Inertial-Odometer Fusion With Online Extrinsic Calibration

H Zhao, X Ji, D Wei - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous positioning in complex urban areas is a challenging problem and has attracted
increasing attention in academia. Multisensor fusion of camera, inertial measurement unit …