Steffen, Richard: Visual SLAM from image sequences acquired by unmanned aerial vehicles. - Bonn, 2009. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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@phdthesis{handle:20.500.11811/3961,
urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5N-19718,
author = {{Richard Steffen}},
title = {Visual SLAM from image sequences acquired by unmanned aerial vehicles},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2009,
month = dec,

volume = 34,
note = {This thesis shows that Kalman filter based approaches are sufficient for the task of simultaneous localization and mapping from image sequences acquired by unmanned aerial vehicles. Using solely direction measurements to solve the problem of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is an important part of autonomous systems. Because the need for real-time capable systems, recursive estimation techniques, Kalman filter based approaches are the main focus of interest. Unfortunately, the non-linearity of the triangulation using the direction measurements cause decrease of accuracy and consistency of the results.
The first contribution of this work is a general derivation of the recursive update of the Kalman filter. This derivation is based on implicit measurement equations, having the classical iterative non-linear as well as the non-iterative and linear Kalman filter as specializations of our general derivation.
Second, a new formulation of linear-motion models for the single camera state model and the sliding window camera state model are given, that make it possible to compute the prediction in a fully linear manner.
The third major contribution is a novel method for the initialization of new object points in the Kalman filter. Empirical studies using synthetic and real data of an image sequence of a photogrammetric strip are made, that demonstrate and compare the influences of the initialization methods of new object points in the Kalman filter.
Forth, the accuracy potential of monoscopic image sequences from unmanned aerial vehicles for autonomous localization and mapping is theoretically analyzed, which can be used for planning purposes.},

url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/3961}
}

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