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。
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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。
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在这项工作中,我们展示了基于全球导航卫星系统(GNSS)的零速度信息的重要性。在文献中已经示出了使用零速度更新(Zupt)的零速度信息的有效性已经显示在文献中。在这里,我们利用此信息并将其添加为GNSS因子图中的位置约束。我们还将其性能与GNSS /惯用导航系统(INS)耦合因子图进行比较。我们在三个数据集上测试了我们的Zupt辅助因子图方法,并将其与仅限GNSS因子图进行了比较。
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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.
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A reliable self-contained navigation system is essential for autonomous vehicles. Based on our previous study on Wheel-INS \cite{niu2019}, a wheel-mounted inertial measurement unit (Wheel-IMU)-based dead reckoning (DR) system, in this paper, we propose a multiple IMUs-based DR solution for the wheeled robots. The IMUs are mounted at different places of the wheeled vehicles to acquire various dynamic information. In particular, at least one IMU has to be mounted at the wheel to measure the wheel velocity and take advantages of the rotation modulation. The system is implemented through a distributed extended Kalman filter structure where each subsystem (corresponding to each IMU) retains and updates its own states separately. The relative position constraints between the multiple IMUs are exploited to further limit the error drift and improve the system robustness. Particularly, we present the DR systems using dual Wheel-IMUs, one Wheel-IMU plus one vehicle body-mounted IMU (Body-IMU), and dual Wheel-IMUs plus one Body-IMU as examples for analysis and comparison. Field tests illustrate that the proposed multi-IMU DR system outperforms the single Wheel-INS in terms of both positioning and heading accuracy. By comparing with the centralized filter, the proposed distributed filter shows unimportant accuracy degradation while holds significant computation efficiency. Moreover, among the three multi-IMU configurations, the one Body-IMU plus one Wheel-IMU design obtains the minimum drift rate. The position drift rates of the three configurations are 0.82\% (dual Wheel-IMUs), 0.69\% (one Body-IMU plus one Wheel-IMU), and 0.73\% (dual Wheel-IMUs plus one Body-IMU), respectively.
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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.
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本文提出了一种新颖的方法,用于在具有复杂拓扑结构的地下领域的搜索和救援行动中自动合作。作为CTU-Cras-Norlab团队的一部分,拟议的系统在DARPA SubT决赛的虚拟轨道中排名第二。与专门为虚拟轨道开发的获奖解决方案相反,该建议的解决方案也被证明是在现实世界竞争极为严峻和狭窄的环境中飞行的机上实体无人机的强大系统。提出的方法可以使无缝模拟转移的无人机团队完全自主和分散的部署,并证明了其优于不同环境可飞行空间的移动UGV团队的优势。该论文的主要贡献存在于映射和导航管道中。映射方法采用新颖的地图表示形式 - 用于有效的风险意识长距离计划,面向覆盖范围和压缩的拓扑范围的LTVMAP领域,以允许在低频道通信下进行多机器人合作。这些表示形式与新的方法一起在导航中使用,以在一般的3D环境中可见性受限的知情搜索,而对环境结构没有任何假设,同时将深度探索与传感器覆盖的剥削保持平衡。所提出的解决方案还包括一条视觉感知管道,用于在没有专用GPU的情况下在5 Hz处进行四个RGB流中感兴趣的对象的板上检测和定位。除了参与DARPA SubT外,在定性和定量评估的各种环境中,在不同的环境中进行了广泛的实验验证,UAV系统的性能得到了支持。
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A reliable pose estimator robust to environmental disturbances is desirable for mobile robots. To this end, inertial measurement units (IMUs) play an important role because they can perceive the full motion state of the vehicle independently. However, it suffers from accumulative error due to inherent noise and bias instability, especially for low-cost sensors. In our previous studies on Wheel-INS \cite{niu2021, wu2021}, we proposed to limit the error drift of the pure inertial navigation system (INS) by mounting an IMU to the wheel of the robot to take advantage of rotation modulation. However, it still drifted over a long period of time due to the lack of external correction signals. In this letter, we propose to exploit the environmental perception ability of Wheel-INS to achieve simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with only one IMU. To be specific, we use the road bank angles (mirrored by the robot roll angles estimated by Wheel-INS) as terrain features to enable the loop closure with a Rao-Blackwellized particle filter. The road bank angle is sampled and stored according to the robot position in the grid maps maintained by the particles. The weights of the particles are updated according to the difference between the currently estimated roll sequence and the terrain map. Field experiments suggest the feasibility of the idea to perform SLAM in Wheel-INS using the robot roll angle estimates. In addition, the positioning accuracy is improved significantly (more than 30\%) over Wheel-INS. Source code of our implementation is publicly available (https://github.com/i2Nav-WHU/Wheel-SLAM).
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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。
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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 .
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农业行业不断寻求农业生产中涉及的不同过程的自动化,例如播种,收获和杂草控制。使用移动自主机器人执行这些任务引起了极大的兴趣。耕地面向同时定位和映射(SLAM)系统(移动机器人技术的关键)面临着艰巨的挑战,这是由于视觉上的难度,这是由于高度重复的场景而引起的。近年来,已经开发了几种视觉惯性遗传(VIO)和SLAM系统。事实证明,它们在室内和室外城市环境中具有很高的准确性。但是,在农业领域未正确评估它们。在这项工作中,我们从可耕地上的准确性和处理时间方面评估了最相关的最新VIO系统,以便更好地了解它们在这些环境中的行为。特别是,该评估是在我们的车轮机器人记录的大豆领域记录的传感器数据集中进行的,该田间被公开发行为Rosario数据集。评估表明,环境的高度重复性外观,崎terrain的地形产生的强振动以及由风引起的叶子的运动,暴露了当前最新的VIO和SLAM系统的局限性。我们分析了系统故障并突出观察到的缺点,包括初始化故障,跟踪损失和对IMU饱和的敏感性。最后,我们得出的结论是,即使某些系统(例如Orb-Slam3和S-MSCKF)在其他系统方面表现出良好的结果,但应采取更多改进,以使其在某些申请中的农业领域可靠,例如作物行的土壤耕作和农药喷涂。 。
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我们为腿部机器人提供了一个开源视觉惯性训练率(VILO)状态估计解决方案Cerberus,该机器人使用一组标准传感器(包括立体声摄像机,IMU,联合编码器,,imu,联合编码器)实时实时估算各个地形的位置和接触传感器。除了估计机器人状态外,我们还执行在线运动学参数校准并接触离群值拒绝以大大减少位置漂移。在各种室内和室外环境中进行的硬件实验验证了Cerberus中的运动学参数可以将估计的漂移降低到长距离高速运动中的1%以下。我们的漂移结果比文献中报道的相同的一组传感器组比任何其他状态估计方法都要好。此外,即使机器人经历了巨大的影响和摄像头遮挡,我们的状态估计器也表现良好。状态估计器的实现以及用于计算我们结果的数据集,可在https://github.com/shuoyangrobotics/cerberus上获得。
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森林中自主冬季导航所固有的挑战包括缺乏可靠的全球导航卫星系统(GNSS)信号,低特征对比度,高照明变化和变化环境。这种类型的越野环境是一个极端的情况,自治车可能会在北部地区遇到。因此,了解对自动导航系统对这种恶劣环境的影响非常重要。为此,我们介绍了一个现场报告分析亚曲率区域中的教导和重复导航,同时受到气象条件的大变化。首先,我们描述了系统,它依赖于点云注册来通过北方林地定位移动机器人,同时构建地图。我们通过在教学和重复模式下在自动导航中进行了在实验中评估了该系统。我们展示了密集的植被扰乱了GNSS信号,使其不适合在森林径中导航。此外,我们突出了在森林走廊中使用点云登记的定位相关的不确定性。我们证明它不是雪降水,而是影响我们系统在环境中定位的能力的积雪。最后,我们从我们的实地运动中揭示了一些经验教训和挑战,以支持在冬季条件下更好的实验工作。
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自主飞机的导航系统依赖于由套件的读数提供的读数来估计飞机状态。在固定翼车的情况下,传感器套件由三联脉的加速度计,陀螺仪和磁力计,全球导航卫星系统(GNSS)接收器和空中数据系统(皮托管,空气叶片,温度计和晴雨表)组成,并且通常由一个或多个数码相机补充。准确表示每个传感器的行为和错误源,以及摄像机生成的图像,在飞行模拟中是必不可少的,以及对新型惯性或视觉导航算法的评估,以及在低交换的情况下大小,重量和电源)飞机,其中传感器的质量和价格有限。本文为每个传感器提供了现实和可定制的模型,该传感器已被实现为开源C ++模拟。随着时间的推移提供了飞机状态的真正变化,模拟提供了所有传感器产生的误差的时间戳系列,以及地球表面的现实图像,类似于沿着指示的状态位置飞行的真正摄像机飞行的地面表面和态度。
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本文介绍了Cerberus机器人系统系统,该系统赢得了DARPA Subterranean挑战最终活动。出席机器人自主权。由于其几何复杂性,降解的感知条件以及缺乏GPS支持,严峻的导航条件和拒绝通信,地下设置使自动操作变得特别要求。为了应对这一挑战,我们开发了Cerberus系统,该系统利用了腿部和飞行机器人的协同作用,再加上可靠的控制,尤其是为了克服危险的地形,多模式和多机器人感知,以在传感器退化,以及在传感器退化的条件下进行映射以及映射通过统一的探索路径计划和本地运动计划,反映机器人特定限制的弹性自主权。 Cerberus基于其探索各种地下环境及其高级指挥和控制的能力,表现出有效的探索,对感兴趣的对象的可靠检测以及准确的映射。在本文中,我们报告了DARPA地下挑战赛的初步奔跑和最终奖项的结果,并讨论了为社区带来利益的教训所面临的亮点和挑战。
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GNSS and LiDAR odometry are complementary as they provide absolute and relative positioning, respectively. Their integration in a loosely-coupled manner is straightforward but is challenged in urban canyons due to the GNSS signal reflections. Recent proposed 3D LiDAR-aided (3DLA) GNSS methods employ the point cloud map to identify the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) reception of GNSS signals. This facilitates the GNSS receiver to obtain improved urban positioning but not achieve a sub-meter level. GNSS real-time kinematics (RTK) uses carrier phase measurements to obtain decimeter-level positioning. In urban areas, the GNSS RTK is not only challenged by multipath and NLOS-affected measurement but also suffers from signal blockage by the building. The latter will impose a challenge in solving the ambiguity within the carrier phase measurements. In the other words, the model observability of the ambiguity resolution (AR) is greatly decreased. This paper proposes to generate virtual satellite (VS) measurements using the selected LiDAR landmarks from the accumulated 3D point cloud maps (PCM). These LiDAR-PCM-made VS measurements are tightly-coupled with GNSS pseudorange and carrier phase measurements. Thus, the VS measurements can provide complementary constraints, meaning providing low-elevation-angle measurements in the across-street directions. The implementation is done using factor graph optimization to solve an accurate float solution of the ambiguity before it is fed into LAMBDA. The effectiveness of the proposed method has been validated by the evaluation conducted on our recently open-sourced challenging dataset, UrbanNav. The result shows the fix rate of the proposed 3DLA GNSS RTK is about 30% while the conventional GNSS-RTK only achieves about 14%. In addition, the proposed method achieves sub-meter positioning accuracy in most of the data collected in challenging urban areas.
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本文介绍了使用腿收割机进行精密收集任务的集成系统。我们的收割机在狭窄的GPS拒绝了森林环境中的自主导航和树抓取了一项挑战性的任务。提出了映射,本地化,规划和控制的策略,并集成到完全自主系统中。任务从使用定制的传感器模块开始使用人员映射感兴趣区域。随后,人类专家选择树木进行收获。然后将传感器模块安装在机器上并用于给定地图内的本地化。规划算法在单路径规划问题中搜索一个方法姿势和路径。我们设计了一个路径,后面的控制器利用腿的收割机的谈判粗糙地形的能力。在达接近姿势时,机器用通用夹具抓住一棵树。此过程重复操作员选择的所有树。我们的系统已经在与树干和自然森林中的测试领域进行了测试。据我们所知,这是第一次在现实环境中运行的全尺寸液压机上显示了这一自主权。
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众所周知,在ADAS应用中,需要良好的估计车辆的姿势。本文提出了一种鉴定的2.5D内径术,由此由横摆率传感器和四轮速度传感器衍生的平面内径测量由悬架的线性模型增强。虽然平面内径术的核心是在文献中已经理解的横摆率模型,但我们通过拟合二次传入信号,实现内插,推断和车辆位置的更精细的整合来增强这一点。我们通过DGPS / IMU参考的实验结果表明,该模型提供了与现有方法相比的高精度的内径估计。利用返回车辆参考点高度变化的传感器改变悬架配置,我们定义了车辆悬架的平面模型,从而增加了内径模型。我们提出了一个实验框架和评估标准,通过该标准评估了内径术的良好和与现有方法进行了比较。该测距模型旨在支持众所周知的低速环绕式摄像头系统。因此,我们介绍了一些应用程序结果,该应用结果显示使用所提出的内径术来查看和计算机视觉应用程序的性能提升
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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。
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本文介绍了一种基于来自IMU数据的学习的位移测量的腿机器人的新型概述状态估计。最近的行人跟踪研究表明,可以使用卷积神经网络从惯性数据推断出运动。学习的惯性位移测量可以提高具有挑战性的场景的状态估计,其中腿部内径是不可靠的,例如滑动和可压缩的地形。我们的工作学会从IMU数据估算从IMU数据融合的位移测量,然后与传统的腿部腿部融合。我们的方法大大降低了诸如在视觉中部署的腿部机器人和Lidar被否定的环境(如有雾的下水道或尘土飞扬的地雷)至关重要。我们使用来自几个真正的机器人实验的数据与交叉挑战性地形的几个真正的机器人实验进行了比较了来自EKF和增量固定滞后因子图估计的结果。与传统的运动惯用估计器相比,我们的结果在挑战情景中表明相对姿势误差的减少37%,而无需学习测量。当在视觉降级环境中的视觉系统中使用时,我们还展示了22%的误差减少,例如地下矿井。
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