Developing Monocular Visual Odometry and Pose Estimation for Arctic Environments
© 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI:10.1002/rob.20325 Arctic regions present one of the harshest environments on Earth for people or mobile robots, yet many important scientific studies, particularly those involving climate change, r...
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ftgeorgiatech:oai:smartech.gatech.edu:1853/38628 2023-05-15T14:24:06+02:00 Developing Monocular Visual Odometry and Pose Estimation for Arctic Environments Williams, Stephen Howard, Ayanna M. Georgia Institute of Technology. Human-Automation Systems Lab Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology. Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines 2010-03 http://hdl.handle.net/1853/38628 https://doi.org/10.1002/rob.20325 en_US eng Georgia Institute of Technology John Wiley & Sons S. Williams, A. Howard, "Developing Monocular Visual Odometry and Pose Estimation for Arctic Environments," Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 27(2), 145-157, March 2010. 1556-4959 http://hdl.handle.net/1853/38628 doi:10.1002/rob.20325 Robotics Text Article 2010 ftgeorgiatech https://doi.org/10.1002/rob.20325 2023-04-03T17:55:19Z © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI:10.1002/rob.20325 Arctic regions present one of the harshest environments on Earth for people or mobile robots, yet many important scientific studies, particularly those involving climate change, require measurements from these areas. For the successful deployment of mobile sensors in the Arctic, a high-quality localization system is required. Although a global positioning system can provide coarse positioning (within several meters), it cannot provide any orientation information. A single-camera-pose-estimation system is presented, based on visual odometry techniques, which is capable of operating in the feature-poor environments of the Arctic. To validate the system, a prototype rover was developed and fielded on a glacier in Alaska. The resulting pose estimates compare favorably to values obtained by hand registering the same video sequence. Although pose errors do accumulate over time, these errors are typical of a standard odometry system but obtained in an environment where standard odometry is not practical. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Climate change glacier Alaska Georgia Institute of Technology: SMARTech - Scholarly Materials and Research at Georgia Tech Arctic Journal of Field Robotics n/a n/a |
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© 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI:10.1002/rob.20325 Arctic regions present one of the harshest environments on Earth for people or mobile robots, yet many important scientific studies, particularly those involving climate change, require measurements from these areas. For the successful deployment of mobile sensors in the Arctic, a high-quality localization system is required. Although a global positioning system can provide coarse positioning (within several meters), it cannot provide any orientation information. A single-camera-pose-estimation system is presented, based on visual odometry techniques, which is capable of operating in the feature-poor environments of the Arctic. To validate the system, a prototype rover was developed and fielded on a glacier in Alaska. The resulting pose estimates compare favorably to values obtained by hand registering the same video sequence. Although pose errors do accumulate over time, these errors are typical of a standard odometry system but obtained in an environment where standard odometry is not practical. |
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Georgia Institute of Technology. Human-Automation Systems Lab Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology. Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines |
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Developing Monocular Visual Odometry and Pose Estimation for Arctic Environments |
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Developing Monocular Visual Odometry and Pose Estimation for Arctic Environments |
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