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VI-RPE: Visual-Inertial Relative Pose Estimation for Aerial Vehicles

This code is part of the publication VI-RPE: Visual-Inertial Relative Pose Estimation for Aerial Vehicles - RA-L 2018. Driven by the need for portable and low-cost solutions to relative pose estimation between Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), in this work we propose a new framework to track a master UAV in real-time, carrying a known constellation of LED markers, from a slave UAV without any other pose estimation capability. This setup is especially interesting to aerial manipulation and close-up inspection of structures with low or no texture. Our approach is able to fuse the estimated master's pose with the slave's onboard inertial readings, supporting intermittent communication between the UAVs.

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Publications

L. Teixeira and F. Maffra and M. Moos and M. Chli: VI-RPE: Visual-Inertial Relative Pose Estimation for Aerial Vehicles IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Spain, 2018.

@ARTICLE{Teixeira18ral, 
  author={L. Teixeira and F. Maffra and M. Moos and M. Chli}, 
  journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters}, 
  title={VI-RPE: Visual-Inertial Relative Pose Estimation for Aerial Vehicles}, 
  year={2018}, 
  volume={3}, 
  number={4}, 
  pages={2770-2777}, 
  doi={10.1109/LRA.2018.2837687},
  month={Oct}

}

Disclaimer and License

The VI-RPE has been tested under the following setups:

  • ROS-Indigo and Ubuntu 14.04

This is research code, expect that it changes often and any fitness for a particular purpose is disclaimed.

The source code is released under a BSD License 2.0.

Installation

  $ mkdir -p ~/catkin_ws/src
  $ cd ~/catkin_ws
  $ catkin config --cmake-args -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
  $ catkin init  # initialize your catkin workspace
  • Get the simulator and dependencies
  $ cd ~/catkin_ws/src
  $ git clone git@github.com:catkin/catkin_simple.git
  $ git clone git@github.com:ethz-asl/mav_comm.git
  $ git clone git@github.com:ethz-asl/eigen_catkin.git
  $ git clone git@github.com:ethz-asl/glog_catkin.git
  $ git clone git@github.com:ethz-asl/gflags_catkin.git
  $ git clone git@github.com:ethz-asl/eigen_checks.git
  $ git clone git@github.com:ethz-asl/eigen_catkin.git
  $ git clone git@github.com:ethz-asl/minkindr.git
  $ git clone git@github.com:ethz-asl/minkindr_ros.git
  $ git clone git@github.com:ethz-asl/ethzasl_msf.git  

  $ git clone git@github.com:VIS4ROB-lab/pf_monocular_pose_estimator.git
  $ git clone git@github.com:VIS4ROB-lab/visensor_simulator.git
  • Build the workspace
  $ catkin build 

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