Approaches, challenges, and applications for deep visual odometry: Toward complicated and emerging areas

K Wang, S Ma, J Chen, F Ren… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual odometry (VO) is a prevalent way to deal with the relative localization problem, which
is becoming increasingly mature and accurate, but it tends to be fragile under challenging …

Selection of the Mars Science Laboratory landing site

M Golombek, J Grant, D Kipp, A Vasavada, R Kirk… - Space science …, 2012 - Springer
The selection of Gale crater as the Mars Science Laboratory landing site took over five
years, involved broad participation of the science community via five open workshops, and …

Visual odometry [tutorial]

D Scaramuzza, F Fraundorfer - IEEE robotics & automation …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual odometry (VO) is the process of estimating the egomotion of an agent (eg, vehicle,
human, and robot) using only the input of a single or multiple cameras attached to it …

Visual odometry: Part ii: Matching, robustness, optimization, and applications

F Fraundorfer, D Scaramuzza - IEEE Robotics & Automation …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Part II of the tutorial has summarized the remaining building blocks of the VO pipeline:
specifically, how to detect and match salient and repeatable features across frames and …

Autonomous exploration and map** system using heterogeneous UAVs and UGVs in GPS-denied environments

H Qin, Z Meng, W Meng, X Chen, H Sun… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a novel integrated vehicular system using collaborative unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) for autonomous exploration …

Evaluation of interest point detectors and feature descriptors for visual tracking

S Gauglitz, T Höllerer, M Turk - International journal of computer vision, 2011 - Springer
Applications for real-time visual tracking can be found in many areas, including visual
odometry and augmented reality. Interest point detection and feature description form the …

[책][B] Quad rotorcraft control: vision-based hovering and navigation

LRG Carrillo, AED López, R Lozano, C Pégard - 2012 - books.google.com
Quad Rotorcraft Control develops original control methods for the navigation and hovering
flight of an autonomous mini-quad-rotor robotic helicopter. These methods use an imaging …

Trajectory tracking and path following for underactuated marine vehicles

C Paliotta, E Lefeber, KY Pettersen… - … on Control Systems …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a control strategy for trajectory tracking and path following of
generic paths for underactuated marine vehicles. Our work is inspired and motivated by …

1‐Point RANSAC for extended Kalman filtering: Application to real‐time structure from motion and visual odometry

J Civera, OG Grasa, AJ Davison… - Journal of field …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Random sample consensus (RANSAC) has become one of the most successful techniques
for robust estimation from a data set that may contain outliers. It works by constructing model …

Computer vision on Mars

L Matthies, M Maimone, A Johnson, Y Cheng… - International Journal of …, 2007 - Springer
Increasing the level of spacecraft autonomy is essential for broadening the reach of solar
system exploration. Computer vision has and will continue to play an important role in …