Towards a real-time vision-based navigation system for a small-class UUV

This paper deals with the problem of navigation for an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) through image mosaicking. It represents a first step towards a real-time vision-based navigation system for a small-class low-cost UUV. We propose a navigation system composed by: (i) an image mosaicking module...

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Autores: García Campos, Rafael, Nicosevici, Tudor, Ridao Rodríguez, Pere, Ribas Romagós, David
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2003
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10256/2345
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10256/2345
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Imatges -- Processament
Kalman, Filtre de
Robots mòbils
Robots submarins
Image processing
Kalman filtering G
Mobile robots
Underwater robots
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Sumario:This paper deals with the problem of navigation for an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) through image mosaicking. It represents a first step towards a real-time vision-based navigation system for a small-class low-cost UUV. We propose a navigation system composed by: (i) an image mosaicking module which provides velocity estimates; and (ii) an extended Kalman filter based on the hydrodynamic equation of motion, previously identified for this particular UUV. The obtained system is able to estimate the position and velocity of the robot. Moreover, it is able to deal with visual occlusions that usually appear when the sea bottom does not have enough visual features to solve the correspondence problem in a certain area of the trajectory