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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title Event-based, 6-DOF pose tracking for high-speed maneuvers
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Elias Müggler
  • Basil Huber
  • Davide Scaramuzza
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
ISSN 2153-0858
Page Range 2761 - 2768
Event Title IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Event Type conference
Event Location Chicago, IL, USA
Event Start Date September 14 - 2014
Event End Date September 18 - 2014
Series Name IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Proceedings
Place of Publication Chicago, IL, USA
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Abstract Text In the last few years, we have witnessed impressive demonstrations of aggressive flights and acrobatics using quadrotors. However, those robots are actually blind. They do not see by themselves, but through the “eyes” of an external motion capture system. Flight maneuvers using onboard sensors are still slow compared to those attainable with motion capture systems. At the current state, the agility of a robot is limited by the latency of its perception pipeline. To obtain more agile robots, we need to use faster sensors. In this paper, we present the first onboard perception system for 6-DOF localization during high-speed maneuvers using a Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS). Unlike a standard CMOS camera, a DVS does not wastefully send full image frames at a fixed frame rate. Conversely, similar to the human eye, it only transmits pixel-level brightness changes at the time they occur with microsecond resolution, thus, offering the possibility to create a perception pipeline whose latency is negligible compared to the dynamics of the robot. We exploit these characteristics to estimate the pose of a quadrotor with respect to a known pattern during high-speed maneuvers, such as flips, with rotational speeds up to 1,200°/s. Additionally, we provide a versatile method to capture ground-truth data using a DVS.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/IROS.2014.6942940
Other Identification Number merlin-id:10197
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