Loose fusion based on SLAM and IMU for indoor environment

Haijiang Zhu; Zhicheng Wang; Jinglin Zhou; Xuejing Wang

doi:10.1117/12.2302929

10 April 2018 Loose fusion based on SLAM and IMU for indoor environment

Haijiang Zhu, Zhicheng Wang, Jinglin Zhou, Xuejing Wang

Proceedings Volume 10615, Ninth International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing (ICGIP 2017); 1061545 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2302929
Event: Ninth International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing, 2017, Qingdao, China

Abstract

The simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method based on the RGB-D sensor is widely researched in recent years. However, the accuracy of the RGB-D SLAM relies heavily on correspondence feature points, and the position would be lost in case of scenes with sparse textures. Therefore, plenty of fusion methods using the RGB-D information and inertial measurement unit (IMU) data have investigated to improve the accuracy of SLAM system. However, these fusion methods usually do not take into account the size of matched feature points. The pose estimation calculated by RGB-D information may not be accurate while the number of correct matches is too few. Thus, considering the impact of matches in SLAM system and the problem of missing position in scenes with few textures, a loose fusion method combining RGB-D with IMU is proposed in this paper. In the proposed method, we design a loose fusion strategy based on the RGB-D camera information and IMU data, which is to utilize the IMU data for position estimation when the corresponding point matches are quite few. While there are a lot of matches, the RGB-D information is still used to estimate position. The final pose would be optimized by General Graph Optimization (g2o) framework to reduce error. The experimental results show that the proposed method is better than the RGB-D camera’s method. And this method can continue working stably for indoor environment with sparse textures in the SLAM system.

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Haijiang Zhu, Zhicheng Wang, Jinglin Zhou, and Xuejing Wang "Loose fusion based on SLAM and IMU for indoor environment", Proc. SPIE 10615, Ninth International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing (ICGIP 2017), 1061545 (10 April 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2302929

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