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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title On-Manifold Preintegration for Real-Time Visual-Inertial Odometry
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Christian Forster
  • Luca Carlone
  • Frank Dellaert
  • Davide Scaramuzza
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 1552-3098
Page Range 1 - 20
Date 2016
Abstract Text Current approaches for visual-inertial odometry (VIO) are able to attain highly accurate state estimation via nonlinear optimization. However, real-time optimization quickly becomes infeasible as the trajectory grows over time; this problem is further emphasized by the fact that inertial measurements come at high rate, hence leading to fast growth of the number of variables in the optimization. In this paper, we address this issue by preintegrating inertial measurements between selected keyframes into single relative motion constraints. Our first contribution is a preintegration theory that properly addresses the manifold structure of the rotation group. We formally discuss the generative measurement model as well as the nature of the rotation noise and derive the expression for the maximum a posteriori state estimator. Our theoretical development enables the computation of all necessary Jacobians for the optimization and a-posteriori bias correction in analytic form. The second contribution is to show that the preintegrated IMU model can be seamlessly integrated into a visual-inertial pipeline under the unifying framework of factor graphs. This enables the application of incremental-smoothing algorithms and the use of a structureless model for visual measurements, which avoids optimizing over the 3D points, further accelerating the computation. We perform an extensive evaluation of our monocular VIO pipeline on real and simulated datasets. The results confirm that our modelling effort leads to accurate state estimation in real-time, outperforming state-of-the-art approaches.
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Official URL http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/docs/TRO16_forster.pdf
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/tro.2016.2597321
Other Identification Number merlin-id:14063
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