Abstract
With the rapid development of technology, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become more popular and are applied in many areas. However, there are some environments where the Global Positioning System (GPS) is unavailable or has the problem of GPS signal outages, such as indoor and bridge inspections. Visual inertial odometry (VIO) is a popular research solution for non-GPS navigation. However, VIO has problems of scale errors and long-term drift. This study proposes a method to correct the position errors of VIO without the help of GPS information for vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) UAVs. In the initial process, artificial landmarks are utilized to improve the positioning results of VIO by the known landmark information. The position of the UAV is estimated by VIO. Then, the accurate position is estimated by the extended Kalman filter (EKF) with the known landmark, which is used to obtain the scale correction using the least squares method. The Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data are used for integration in the time-update process. The EKF can be updated with two measurements. One is the visual odometry (VO) estimated directly by a landmark. The other is the VIO with scale correction. When the landmark is detected during takeoff phase, or the UAV is returning to the takeoff location during landing phase, the trajectory estimated by the landmark is used to update the scale correction. At the beginning of the experiments, preliminary verification was conducted on the ground. A self-developed UAV equipped with a visual–inertial sensor to collect data and a high-precision real time kinematic (RTK) to verify trajectory are applied to flight tests. The experimental results show that the method proposed in this research effectively solves the problems of scale and the long-term drift of VIO.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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