• Acta Optica Sinica
  • Vol. 38, Issue 7, 0715004 (2018)
Huican Lin1, Qiang Lü1、*, Heng Wei1, Yang Wang1, and Bing Liang1
Author Affiliations
  • 1 94891 Troop, Beijing 100076, China
  • 1 Department of Weapon and Control, Academy of Army Armored Force, Beijing 100072, China
  • 1 School of Information Engineering, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, Jiangxi 341000, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/AOS201838.0715004 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Huican Lin, Qiang Lü, Heng Wei, Yang Wang, Bing Liang. Quadrotor Autonomous Flight and Three-Dimensional Dense Reconstruction Based on VI-SLAM[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2018, 38(7): 0715004 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We propose a fully autonomous micro aerial vehicle with onboard sensors to achieve simultaneous three-dimensional localization and dense reconstruction. Based on the ORB-SLAM system, a visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping system is proposed based on the extended Kalman filter, which improves the robustness and accuracy of the system to meet the requirements of micro aerial vehicle autonomous flight. Since sparse feature point maps created by the ORB-SLAM system can't be used for micro aerial vehicle obstacle avoidance and navigation, a stereo camera is used to propose an improved method of building maps from sparse maps to dense octree maps. The experiment evaluation with EuRoC dataset shows that the proposed algorithm improves the precision of open keyframe-based visual-inertial algorithm by one time. The proposed algorithm is applied to the quadrotor autonomous flight platform, and the fully autonomous flight and dense map construction is achieved by relying on on-board sensors and processors. The effectiveness and robustness of the proposed algorithm are verified.
    Huican Lin, Qiang Lü, Heng Wei, Yang Wang, Bing Liang. Quadrotor Autonomous Flight and Three-Dimensional Dense Reconstruction Based on VI-SLAM[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2018, 38(7): 0715004
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