Visual Odometry Aided by a Sun Sensor and an Inclinometer
Due to the absence of any satellite-based global positioning system on Mars, the Mars Exploration Rovers commonly track position changes of the vehicle using a technique called visual odometry (VO), where updated rover poses are determined by tracking keypoints between stereo image pairs. Unfortunat...
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Format: | Thesis |
Language: | English |
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2011
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/31292 |