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Acta Armamentarii ›› 2023, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (6): 1588-1601.doi: 10.12382/bgxb.2022.0288

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Progress and Prospects of Polarized Skylight Fused Visual SLAM

XIA Linlin1,*(), ZHANG Jingjing1, CHU Yan2, ZHANG Daochang3, SONG Ziwei1, CUI Jiashuo1, LIU Ruimin1   

  1. 1. School of Automation Engineering, Northeast Electric Power University, Jilin 132012, Jilin, China
    2. College of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, Heilongjiang, China
    3. School of Science, Northeast Electric Power University, Jilin 132012, Jilin, China
  • Received:2022-04-22 Online:2023-06-30
  • Contact: XIA Linlin

Abstract:

The polarized light navigation that imitates the mechanism of polarized light perception of compound eyes is a newly developed technology, which is stable, passive and totally autonomous. The miniaturization and integration of polarization sensors is currently enabling its fusion with low-cost cameras, inertial measurement units (IMU), etc. The solutions for multi-sensor-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) are firstly reviewed and analyzed. The research progress in polarization navigation sensors and skylight polarization modes are summarized. Then, the polarized light-aided visual-inertial navigation system (VINS) is explored, and this solution is proved to be feasible for outdoor long-term visual SLAM. The challenging problems of polarization imager model that provides directional observation constraint for the whole navigation system are pointed out in terms of outdoor robot operation system (ROS) and graph optimization for reference. The pipeline design of polarized light-aided VINS-Fusion has the technical characteristic of expanding the absolute pose constraint edges of the graph, and further enables the globally consistent navigation trajectory tracking, providing innovative technical supports for autonomous mobile robot navigation and positioning in remote sensing, mapping and military exploration tasks.

Key words: visual SLAM, polarized light navigation, skylight polarization mode, multi-sensor fusion, graph optimization