An Introduction to Inertial and Visual Sensing
International Journal of Robotics Research
The Implementation of an Autonomous Helicopter Testbed
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
Vision-inertial tracking algorithm with a known object's geometric model
ICIC'10 Proceedings of the Advanced intelligent computing theories and applications, and 6th international conference on Intelligent computing
Fusion of IMU and Vision for Absolute Scale Estimation in Monocular SLAM
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
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This paper describes an airborne reconfigurable measurement system being developed at Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sensor Technology, Sweden. An image processing oriented sensor management architecture for UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) IR/EO-surveillance is presented. Some preliminary results of navigation aided image processing in UAV applications are demonstrated, such as SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping), structure from motion and geolocation, target tracking, and detection of moving objects. The design goal of the measurement system is to emulate a UAV-mounted sensor gimbal using a stand-alone system. The minimal configuration of the system consists of a gyro-stabilized gimbal with IR and CCD sensors and an integrated high-performance navigation system. The navigation system combines dGPS real-time kinematics (RTK) data with data from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) mounted with reference to the optical sensors. The gimbal is to be used as an experimental georeferenced sensor platform, using a choice of carriers, to produce military relevant image sequences for studies of image processing and sensor control on moving surveillance and reconnaissance platforms. Furthermore, a high resolution synthetic environment, developed for sensor simulations in the visual and infrared wavelengths, is presented. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.