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Area of Science:

  • Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  • Geomatics Engineering
  • Computer Vision

Background:

  • Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) systems provide local pose estimation but suffer from drift.
  • Traditional feature-based VIO methods struggle in environments with weak or repetitive textures.
  • Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) offers global positioning but has limitations in accuracy and real-time performance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a tightly coupled GNSS-VIO system for robust and drift-free state estimation.
  • To enhance VIO robustness in challenging environments by incorporating line features.
  • To improve the accuracy and real-time capabilities of state estimation by fusing GNSS and VIO data.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed a tightly coupled GNSS-VIO system utilizing point-line features for improved environmental structure representation.
  • Fused GNSS pseudorange and carrier phase measurements using a carrier phase smoothed pseudorange approach for state estimation.
  • Implemented real-time extrinsic parameter calibration between the GNSS receiver and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU).

Main Results:

  • The proposed system demonstrated improved positioning precision compared to traditional methods.
  • Experimental results on public datasets confirmed the system's robustness and real-time performance.
  • The tightly coupled GNSS-VIO state estimator showed full observability of states in the ECEF frame and consistency.

Conclusions:

  • The developed GNSS-VIO system effectively mitigates VIO drift and enhances state estimation robustness.
  • The integration of point-line features and smoothed GNSS measurements leads to superior performance in complex environments.
  • The system achieves accurate, robust, and real-time state estimation for autonomous navigation applications.