Fast stereo-based visual odometry for rover navigation

  • Authors:
  • Aldo Cumani;Antonio Guiducci

  • Affiliations:
  • Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Torino, Italy;Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Torino, Italy

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS Transactions on Circuits and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The object of visual odometry is the computation of the path of a rover from onboard passive vision data only. The approach presented here relies on the accumulation of ego-motion estimates obtained by stereo vision and bundle adjustment of tracked feature points. We also propose a new feature detector/descriptor, which is a simplified and faster form of other well known descriptors (SURF). For cyclic paths, a déjà vu mechanism allows further control over the accumulated error. Tests on real-world data show that our descriptors are effective for accurate path estimation, while being fast enough for use in tasks such as autonomous planetary exploration.