We propose a multisensor fusion framework for onboard real-time navigation of a quadrotor in an indoor environment, by integrating sensor readings from an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), a camera-based object detection algorithm, and an Ultra-WideBand (UWB) localization system. The sensor readings from the camera-based object detection algorithm and the UWB localization system arrive intermittently, since the measurements are not readily available. We design a Kalman filter that manages intermittent observations in order to handle and fuse the readings and estimate the pose of the quadrotor for tracking a predefined trajectory. The system is implemented via a Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation technique, in which the dynamic model of the quadrotor is simulated in an open-source 3D robotics simulator tool, and the whole navigation system is implemented on Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled edge GPU. The simulation results show that our proposed framework offers low positioning and trajectory errors, while handling intermittent sensor measurements.

我们提出了通过现实的模拟和现实世界实验来支持可复制研究的多运动无人机控制（UAV）和估计系统。我们提出了一个独特的多帧本地化范式，用于同时使用多个传感器同时估算各种参考框架中的无人机状态。该系统可以在GNSS和GNSS贬低的环境中进行复杂的任务，包括室外室内过渡和执行冗余估计器，以备份不可靠的本地化源。提出了两种反馈控制设计：一个用于精确和激进的操作，另一个用于稳定和平稳的飞行，并进行嘈杂的状态估计。拟议的控制和估计管道是在3D中使用Euler/Tait-Bryan角度表示的，而无需使用Euler/Tait-Bryan角度表示。取而代之的是，我们依靠旋转矩阵和一个新颖的基于标题的惯例来代表标准多电流直升机3D中的一个自由旋转自由度。我们提供了积极维护且有据可查的开源实现，包括对无人机，传感器和本地化系统的现实模拟。拟议的系统是多年应用系统，空中群，空中操纵，运动计划和遥感的多年研究产物。我们所有的结果都得到了现实世界中的部署的支持，该系统部署将系统塑造成此处介绍的表单。此外，该系统是在我们团队从布拉格的CTU参与期间使用的，该系统在享有声望的MBZIRC 2017和2020 Robotics竞赛中，还参加了DARPA SubT挑战赛。每次，我们的团队都能在世界各地最好的竞争对手中获得最高位置。在每种情况下，挑战都促使团队改善系统，并在紧迫的期限内获得大量高质量的体验。

太空探索目睹了毅力漫游者登陆火星表面，并展示了火星直升机超越地球以外的第一次飞行。在他们在火星上的任务中，毅力漫游者和Ingenuity合作探索了火星表面，Ingenuity侦察员地形信息为Rover的安全穿越。因此，确定两个平台之间的相对姿势对于此任务的成功至关重要。在这种必要性的驱动下，这项工作提出了基于基于神经形态视觉测量（NVBM）和惯性测量的融合的强大相对定位系统。神经形态视觉的出现引发了计算机视觉社区的范式转变，这是由于其独特的工作原理由现场发生的光强度变化触发的异步事件所划定。这意味着由于照明不变性而无法在静态场景中获取观察结果。为了规避这一限制，在场景中插入了高频活动地标，以确保一致的事件射击。这些地标被用作促进相对定位的显着特征。开发了一种新型的基于事件的地标识别算法，使用高斯混合模型（GMM），用于匹配我们NVBM的地标对应。 NVBM与提议的状态估计器中的惯性测量，地标跟踪Kalman滤波器（LTKF）和翻译解耦的Kalman Filter（TDKF）分别用于地标跟踪和相对定位。该系统在各种实验中进行了测试，并且在准确性和范围方面具有优于最先进的方法。

The performance of inertial navigation systems is largely dependent on the stable flow of external measurements and information to guarantee continuous filter updates and bind the inertial solution drift. Platforms in different operational environments may be prevented at some point from receiving external measurements, thus exposing their navigation solution to drift. Over the years, a wide variety of works have been proposed to overcome this shortcoming, by exploiting knowledge of the system current conditions and turning it into an applicable source of information to update the navigation filter. This paper aims to provide an extensive survey of information aided navigation, broadly classified into direct, indirect, and model aiding. Each approach is described by the notable works that implemented its concept, use cases, relevant state updates, and their corresponding measurement models. By matching the appropriate constraint to a given scenario, one will be able to improve the navigation solution accuracy, compensate for the lost information, and uncover certain internal states, that would otherwise remain unobservable.

本文为自动驾驶车辆提供了基于激光雷达的同时定位和映射（SLAM）。研究了来自地标传感器的数据和自适应卡尔曼滤波器（KF）中的带状惯性测量单元（IMU）加上系统的可观察性。除了车辆的状态和具有里程碑意义的位置外，自我调整过滤器还估计IMU校准参数以及测量噪声的协方差。流程噪声，状态过渡矩阵和观察灵敏度矩阵的离散时间协方差矩阵以封闭形式得出，使其适合实时实现。检查3D SLAM系统的可观察性得出的结论是，该系统在地标对准的几何条件下仍然可以观察到。

The field of autonomous mobile robots has undergone dramatic advancements over the past decades. Despite achieving important milestones, several challenges are yet to be addressed. Aggregating the achievements of the robotic community as survey papers is vital to keep the track of current state-of-the-art and the challenges that must be tackled in the future. This paper tries to provide a comprehensive review of autonomous mobile robots covering topics such as sensor types, mobile robot platforms, simulation tools, path planning and following, sensor fusion methods, obstacle avoidance, and SLAM. The urge to present a survey paper is twofold. First, autonomous navigation field evolves fast so writing survey papers regularly is crucial to keep the research community well-aware of the current status of this field. Second, deep learning methods have revolutionized many fields including autonomous navigation. Therefore, it is necessary to give an appropriate treatment of the role of deep learning in autonomous navigation as well which is covered in this paper. Future works and research gaps will also be discussed.

安装在微空中车辆（MAV）上的地面穿透雷达是有助于协助人道主义陆地间隙的工具。然而，合成孔径雷达图像的质量取决于雷达天线的准确和精确运动估计以及与MAV产生信息性的观点。本文介绍了一个完整的自动空气缩进的合成孔径雷达（GPSAR）系统。该系统由空间校准和时间上同步的工业级传感器套件组成，使得在地面上方，雷达成像和光学成像。自定义任务规划框架允许在地上控制地上的Stripmap和圆形（GPSAR）轨迹的生成和自动执行，以及空中成像调查飞行。基于因子图基于Dual接收机实时运动（RTK）全局导航卫星系统（GNSS）和惯性测量单元（IMU）的测量值，以获得精确，高速平台位置和方向。地面真理实验表明，传感器时机为0.8美元，正如0.1美元的那样，定位率为1 kHz。与具有不确定标题初始化的单个位置因子相比，双位置因子配方可提高高达40％，批量定位精度高达59％。我们的现场试验验证了本地化准确性和精度，使得能够相干雷达测量和检测在沙子中埋入的雷达目标。这验证了作为鸟瞰着地图检测系统的潜力。

与单个IMU相比，多个刚性连接的惯性测量单元（IMU）传感器提供了更丰富的数据流。最先进的方法遵循IMU测量的概率模型，基于在贝叶斯框架下组合的错误的随机性质。但是，负担得起的低级IMU此外，由于其不受相应的概率模型所掩盖的缺陷而遭受了系统的错误。在本文中，我们提出了一种方法，即合并多个IMU（MIMU）传感器数据的最佳轴组成（BAC），以进行准确的3D置置估计，该数据通过从集合中动态选择最佳的IMU轴来考虑随机和系统误差所有可用的轴。我们在MIMU视觉惯性传感器上评估了我们的方法，并将方法的性能与MIMU数据融合的最新方法进行比较。我们表明，BAC的表现优于后者，并且在开放环路中的方向和位置估计都可以提高20％的精度，但需要适当的处理以保持获得的增益。

近年来，空中机器人背景下的高速导航和环境互动已成为几个学术和工业研究研究的兴趣领域。特别是，由于其若干环境中的潜在可用性，因此搜索和拦截（SAI）应用程序造成引人注目的研究区域。尽管如此，SAI任务涉及有关感官权重，板载计算资源，致动设计和感知和控制算法的具有挑战性的发展。在这项工作中，已经提出了一种用于高速对象抓握的全自动空中机器人。作为一个额外的子任务，我们的系统能够自主地刺穿位于靠近表面的杆中的气球。我们的第一款贡献是在致动和感觉水平的致动和感觉水平的空中机器人的设计，包括具有额外传感器的新型夹具设计，使机器人能够高速抓住物体。第二种贡献是一种完整的软件框架，包括感知，状态估计，运动计划，运动控制和任务控制，以便快速且强大地执行自主掌握任务。我们的方法已在一个具有挑战性的国际竞争中验证，并显示出突出的结果，能够在室外环境中以6米/分来自动搜索，遵循和掌握移动物体

本文在移动平台上介绍了四摩托车的自动起飞和着陆系统。设计的系统解决了三个具有挑战性的问题：快速姿势估计，受限的外部定位和有效避免障碍物。具体而言，首先，我们基于Aruco标记设计了着陆识别和定位系统，以帮助四极管快速计算相对姿势。其次，我们利用基于梯度的本地运动计划者快速生成无冲突的参考轨迹；第三，我们构建了一台自主状态机器，使四极管能够完全自治完成其起飞，跟踪和着陆任务；最后，我们在模拟，现实世界和室外环境中进行实验，以验证系统的有效性并证明其潜力。

A monocular visual-inertial system (VINS), consisting of a camera and a low-cost inertial measurement unit (IMU), forms the minimum sensor suite for metric six degreesof-freedom (DOF) state estimation. However, the lack of direct distance measurement poses significant challenges in terms of IMU processing, estimator initialization, extrinsic calibration, and nonlinear optimization. In this work, we present VINS-Mono: a robust and versatile monocular visual-inertial state estimator. Our approach starts with a robust procedure for estimator initialization and failure recovery. A tightly-coupled, nonlinear optimization-based method is used to obtain high accuracy visual-inertial odometry by fusing pre-integrated IMU measurements and feature observations. A loop detection module, in combination with our tightly-coupled formulation, enables relocalization with minimum computation overhead. We additionally perform four degrees-of-freedom pose graph optimization to enforce global consistency. We validate the performance of our system on public datasets and real-world experiments and compare against other state-of-the-art algorithms. We also perform onboard closed-loop autonomous flight on the MAV platform and port the algorithm to an iOS-based demonstration. We highlight that the proposed work is a reliable, complete, and versatile system that is applicable for different applications that require high accuracy localization. We open source our implementations for both PCs 1 and iOS mobile devices 2 .

开发了一个领导者追随者系统，用于合作运输。据我们所知，这是一个不需要互联通信的第一工作，并且可以实时修改有效载荷的参考轨迹，以便它可以应用于动态变化的环境。为了在无通信条件下实时跟踪修改的参考轨迹，引导跟随系统被认为是非文展系统，其中开发了控制器以实现有效载荷的渐近跟踪。为了消除安装力传感器的需要，开发了UKFS（Unscented Kalman滤波器）以估计领导者和追随者所施加的力量。进行稳定性分析以证明闭环系统的跟踪误差。仿真结果表明跟踪控制器的良好性能。实验表明，领导者的控制器和追随者可以在现实世界中工作，但是跟踪误差受到限制空间中气流的干扰的影响。

Many aerial robotic applications require the ability to land on moving platforms, such as delivery trucks and marine research boats. We present a method to autonomously land an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle on a moving vehicle. A visual servoing controller approaches the ground vehicle using velocity commands calculated directly in image space. The control laws generate velocity commands in all three dimensions, eliminating the need for a separate height controller. The method has shown the ability to approach and land on the moving deck in simulation, indoor and outdoor environments, and compared to the other available methods, it has provided the fastest landing approach. Unlike many existing methods for landing on fast-moving platforms, this method does not rely on additional external setups, such as RTK, motion capture system, ground station, offboard processing, or communication with the vehicle, and it requires only the minimal set of hardware and localization sensors. The videos and source codes are also provided.

近年来，视觉惯性进程（VIO）取得了许多重大进展。但是，VIO方法遭受了长期轨迹的定位漂移。在本文中，我们建议通过将超宽带（UWB）的范围测量纳入VIO框架\ TextIt {Conseply}，提议首次估计Jacobian Visual惯性范围射程（FEJ-VIRO）来减少VIO的定位漂移。考虑到UWB锚的初始位置通常不可用，我们提出了一个长短的窗口结构，以初始化UWB锚位置以及状态增强的协方差。初始化后，FEJ-VIRO与机器人姿势同时估算了UWB锚定位置。我们进一步分析了视觉惯性范围估计器的可观察性，并证明了理想情况下存在\ textit {fortiT {fortiT {fortiT {四}，而其中一个在实际情况下由于浪费信息而消失。基于这些分析，我们利用FEJ技术来执行不可观察的方向，从而减少估计器的不一致。最后，我们通过模拟和现实世界实验验证分析并评估所提出的FEJ-VIRO。

We propose AstroSLAM, a standalone vision-based solution for autonomous online navigation around an unknown target small celestial body. AstroSLAM is predicated on the formulation of the SLAM problem as an incrementally growing factor graph, facilitated by the use of the GTSAM library and the iSAM2 engine. By combining sensor fusion with orbital motion priors, we achieve improved performance over a baseline SLAM solution. We incorporate orbital motion constraints into the factor graph by devising a novel relative dynamics factor, which links the relative pose of the spacecraft to the problem of predicting trajectories stemming from the motion of the spacecraft in the vicinity of the small body. We demonstrate the excellent performance of AstroSLAM using both real legacy mission imagery and trajectory data courtesy of NASA's Planetary Data System, as well as real in-lab imagery data generated on a 3 degree-of-freedom spacecraft simulator test-bed.

我们在本文中介绍Raillomer，实现实时准确和鲁棒的内径测量和轨道车辆的测绘。 Raillomer从两个Lidars，IMU，火车车程和全球导航卫星系统（GNSS）接收器接收测量。作为前端，来自IMU / Royomer缩放组的估计动作De-Skews DeSoised Point云并为框架到框架激光轨道测量产生初始猜测。作为后端，配制了基于滑动窗口的因子图以共同优化多模态信息。另外，我们利用来自提取的轨道轨道和结构外观描述符的平面约束，以进一步改善对重复结构的系统鲁棒性。为了确保全局常见和更少的模糊映射结果，我们开发了一种两级映射方法，首先以本地刻度执行扫描到地图，然后利用GNSS信息来注册模块。该方法在聚集的数据集上广泛评估了多次范围内的数据集，并且表明Raillomer即使在大或退化的环境中也能提供排入量级定位精度。我们还将Raillomer集成到互动列车状态和铁路监控系统原型设计中，已经部署到实验货量交通铁路。

滑动检测对于在外星人表面驾驶的流浪者的安全性和效率至关重要。当前的行星流动站滑移检测系统依赖于视觉感知，假设可以在环境中获得足够的视觉特征。然而，基于视觉的方法容易受到感知降解的行星环境，具有主要低地形特征，例如岩石岩，冰川地形，盐散发物以及较差的照明条件，例如黑暗的洞穴和永久阴影区域。仅依靠视觉传感器进行滑动检测也需要额外的计算功率，并降低了流动站的遍历速率。本文回答了如何检测行星漫游者的车轮滑移而不取决于视觉感知的问题。在这方面，我们提出了一个滑动检测系统，该系统从本体感受的本地化框架中获取信息，该框架能够提供数百米的可靠，连续和计算有效的状态估计。这是通过使用零速度更新，零角度更新和非独立限制作为惯性导航系统框架的伪测量更新来完成的。对所提出的方法进行了对实际硬件的评估，并在行星 - 分析环境中进行了现场测试。该方法仅使用IMU和车轮编码器就可以达到150 m左右的92％滑动检测精度。

在本文中，我们推导了机器人来测量相对方向或到达角度（AOA）的新能力，以在非视线和未映射的环境中运行的其他机器人，而无需外部基础架构。我们通过捕获WiFi信号在从发送到接收机器人时遍历的所有路径来这样做，这是我们术语AOA简档。当机器人在3D空间中移动时，关键直觉是“在空中模拟空气中的天线阵列”，一种类似于合成孔径雷达（SAR）的方法。主要贡献包括i）一个框架，以适应任意3D轨迹的框架，以及所有机器人的持续移动性，而计算AOA配置文件和II）随附的分析，其提供了作为机器人轨迹的函数的AOA估计方差的较低限制基于Cramer Rao绑定的几何。这是一个关键的区别与先前的SAR的工作，限制机器人移动到规定的运动模式，不概括到3D空间，和/或在数据采集时段期间需要将机器人发送到静态。我们的方法导致更准确的AOA配置文件，从而更好地估计，并正式地将该观察表征为轨迹的信息性;我们推导出封闭形式的可计算量。所有理论发展都是通过广泛的模拟和硬件实验证实的。我们还表明，我们的配方可以与现成的轨迹估计传感器一起使用。最后，我们展示了我们系统对多机器人动态集合任务的表现。

Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles are deployed for a variety tasks including surveillance and monitoring. Perching and staring allow the vehicle to monitor targets without flying, saving battery power and increasing the overall mission time without the need to frequently replace batteries. This paper addresses the Active Visual Perching (AVP) control problem to autonomously perch on inclined surfaces up to $90^\circ$. Our approach generates dynamically feasible trajectories to navigate and perch on a desired target location, while taking into account actuator and Field of View (FoV) constraints. By replanning in mid-flight, we take advantage of more accurate target localization increasing the perching maneuver's robustness to target localization or control errors. We leverage the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions to identify the compatibility between planning objectives and the visual sensing constraint during the planned maneuver. Furthermore, we experimentally identify the corresponding boundary conditions that maximizes the spatio-temporal target visibility during the perching maneuver. The proposed approach works on-board in real-time with significant computational constraints relying exclusively on cameras and an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). Experimental results validate the proposed approach and shows the higher success rate as well as increased target interception precision and accuracy with respect to a one-shot planning approach, while still retaining aggressive capabilities with flight envelopes that include large excursions from the hover position on inclined surfaces up to 90$^\circ$, angular speeds up to 750~deg/s, and accelerations up to 10~m/s$^2$.

Marine waves significantly disturb the unmanned surface vehicle (USV) motion. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can hardly land on a USV that undergoes irregular motion. An oversized landing platform is usually necessary to guarantee the landing safety, which limits the number of UAVs that can be carried. We propose a landing system assisted by tether and robot manipulation. The system can land multiple UAVs without increasing the USV's size. An MPC controller stabilizes the end-effector and tracks the UAVs, and an adaptive estimator addresses the disturbance caused by the base motion. The working strategy of the system is designed to plan the motion of each device. We have validated the manipulator controller through simulations and well-controlled indoor experiments. During the field tests, the proposed system caught and placed the UAVs when the disturbed USV roll range was approximately 12 degrees.