Professor of School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment, Western Sydney University, Australia. His research interests cover Industry 4.0, Additive Manufacturing, Advanced Engineering Materials and Structures (Metals and Composites), Multi-scale Modelling of Materials and Structures, Metal Forming and Metal Surface Treatment.
2024-02-24
2024-01-04
2023-11-02
Abstract—Indoor localization remains a difficlut problem due to the lack of global positioning facilities. In this paper, we present an indoor localization system based on tightly coupling the stereo camera and the inertial measurement unit (IMU). To achieve the correct fusion, we strictly synchronized the sensors by compensating for all of system delays, including the varied exposure time of camera. The calibration datasets were carefully recorded to obtain the exact model of the stereo camera as well as the relationship between the camera and the IMU. After preparing, we performed the localization by utilizing the keyframe-based visual-inertial odometry. This algorithm works by minimizing the IMU error jointly with the camera reprojection, to get an optimal estimation of robot states. The visual landmarks are calculated by keypoint matching and triangulation between current frames and keyframes. The keyframes are selected to view keypoints from different angles to improve the depth uncertainty of landmarks. The algorithm was put into practice by an embedded computer which has enough processing ability, while presented in a small size for convenient deployment on mobile robots. The experimental results indicated that the developed system could achieve sufficient accuracy and robustness under real-world conditions.