We present a quadrotor Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) capable of autonomous indoor navigation. The MAV is equipped with four cameras arranged in two stereo configurations. One camera pair is facing forward and serves as input for a reduced stereo SLAM system. The other camera pair is facing downwards and is used for ground plane detection and tracking. All processing, including sparse stereo matching, is run on-board in real-time and at high processing rates. We demonstrate the capabilities of this MAV design in several flight experiments. Our MAV is able to recover from pose estimation errors and can cope with processing failures for one camera pair. We show that by using two camera pairs instead of one, we are able to significantly increase navigation accuracy and robustness.


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    Title :

    On-board dual-stereo-vision for autonomous quadrotor navigation


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    Publication date :

    2013-05-01


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    1268248 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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