Robotics: Science and Systems X

Efficient Visual-Inertial Navigation using a Rolling-Shutter Camera with Inaccurate Timestamps

Chao Guo, Dimitrios Kottas, Ryan DuToit, Ahmed Ahmed, Ruipeng Li, Stergios Roumeliotis

Abstract:

In order to develop Vision-aided Inertial Navigation Systems (VINS) on mobile devices, such as cell phones and tablets, one needs to consider two important issues, both due to the commercial-grade underlying hardware: (i) The unknown and varying time offset between the camera and IMU clocks (ii) The rolling-shutter effect caused by CMOS sensors. Without appropriately modelling their effect and compensating for them online, the navigation accuracy will significantly degrade. In this work, we introduce a linear-complexity algorithm for fusing inertial measurements with time-misaligned, rolling-shutter images using a highly efficient and precise linear interpolation model. As a result, our algorithm achieves a better accuracy and improved speed compared to existing methods. Finally, we validate the superiority of the proposed algorithm through simulations and real-time, online experiments on a cell phone.

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Bibtex:

  
@INPROCEEDINGS{Guo-RSS-14, 
    AUTHOR    = {Chao Guo AND Dimitrios Kottas AND Ryan DuToit AND Ahmed Ahmed AND Ruipeng Li AND Stergios Roumeliotis}, 
    TITLE     = {Efficient Visual-Inertial Navigation using a Rolling-Shutter Camera with Inaccurate Timestamps}, 
    BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems}, 
    YEAR      = {2014}, 
    ADDRESS   = {Berkeley, USA}, 
    MONTH     = {July},
    DOI       = {10.15607/RSS.2014.X.057} 
}