Exploiting ground plane constraints for visual-inertial navigation

Record - IEEE PLANS, Position Location and Navigation Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 527-534

  Panahandeh, Ghazaleh ^a   Zachariah, Dave ^a   Jansson, Magnus ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ego motion estimation; epipolar geometry; ground plane feature detection; vision aided INS

Indexed keywords

EGO-MOTION ESTIMATION; EPIPOLAR CONSTRAINTS; EPIPOLAR GEOMETRY; FEATURE DETECTION; GROUND PLANES; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; MEASUREMENT MODEL; MONOCULAR CAMERAS; POSE ESTIMATION; SIGMA-POINT KALMAN FILTERS; STATE-SPACE FRAMEWORK; VISION-AIDED INS;

INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 84866233498     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PLANS.2012.6236923     Document Type: Conference Paper

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