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Ego-motion Estimation Based on RGB-D Camera and Inertial Sensor
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Yen-Chi, E
Abstract
Ego-motion estimation has a wide variety of applications in robot control and automation. Proper local estimation of ego-motion benefits to recognize surrounding environment and recover the trajectory traversed for autonomous robot. In this thesis, we present a system that estimates ego-motion by fusing key frame based visual odometry and inertial measurements. The hardware of the system includes a RGB-D camera for capturing color and depth images and an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) for acquiring inertial measurements. Motion of camera between two consecutive images is estimated by finding correspondences of visual features. Rigidity constraints are used to efficiently remove outliers from a set of initial correspondence. Moreover, we apply random sample consensus (RANSAC) to handle the effect of the remaining outliers in the motion estimation step. These strategies are reasonable to insure that the remaining correspondences which involved in motion estimation almost contain inliers. Several experiments with different kind of camera movements are performed to show that the robustness and accuracy of the ego-motion estimation algorithm, and the ability of our system to handle the real scene data correctly.
Subjects
Ego-motion
Motion estimation
Visual odometry
RGB-D camera
Inertial measurement unit
Type
thesis
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