A. Menozzi, Brian Clipp, Erich Wenger, Jared Heinly, Enrique Dunn, H. Towles, Jan-Michael Frahm, G. Welch
{"title":"Development of vision-aided navigation for a wearable outdoor augmented reality system","authors":"A. Menozzi, Brian Clipp, Erich Wenger, Jared Heinly, Enrique Dunn, H. Towles, Jan-Michael Frahm, G. Welch","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851442","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the development of vision-aided navigation (i.e., pose estimation) for a wearable augmented reality system operating in natural outdoor environments. This system combines a novel pose estimation capability, a helmet-mounted see-through display, and a wearable processing unit to accurately overlay geo-registered graphics on the user's view of reality. Accurate pose estimation is achieved through integration of inertial, magnetic, GPS, terrain elevation data, and computervision inputs. Specifically, a helmet-mounted forward-looking camera and custom computer vision algorithms are used to provide measurements of absolute orientation (i.e., orientation of the helmet with respect to the Earth). These orientation measurements, which leverage mountainous terrain horizon geometry and/or known landmarks, enable the system to achieve significant improvements in accuracy compared to GPS/INS solutions of similar size, weight, and power, and to operate robustly in the presence of magnetic disturbances. Recent field testing activities, across a variety of environments where these vision-based signals of opportunity are available, indicate that high accuracy (less than 10 mrad) in graphics geo-registration can be achieved. This paper presents the pose estimation process, the methods behind the generation of vision-based measurements, and representative experimental results.","PeriodicalId":371808,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium - PLANS 2014","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129234121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indoor localization and mapping using camera and inertial measurement unit (IMU)","authors":"N. Mostofi, M. Elhabiby, N. El-Sheimy","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851507","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a monocular camera and inertial measurement unit (IMU) fusion technique using Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) with delay in landmark initialization to address the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem for single smartphone. The dynamic model of the EKF is chosen to be constant acceleration while the velocity of the system is constantly monitored in order to have enough overlap between consecutive camera frames. Moreover inconsistency in SLAM algorithm due to heading error is removed by utilizing magnetometer measurement model. The use of data association technique ensures that the final map solution is robust and consistent even in complex environment. For fast and robust features matching, the Speed-Up Robust Features (SURF) extraction algorithm followed by random sample consensus (RANSAC) method is applied on camera frames. The extracted features from SURF algorithm are related to ground plane, since the system moves parallel to the ground. The experimental results illustrate the performance of the monocular-IMU SLAM over long walked trajectories in indoor environment.","PeriodicalId":371808,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium - PLANS 2014","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123802081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Philipp Crocoll, Tim Caselitz, Bastian Hettich, M. Langer, G. Trommer
{"title":"Laser-aided navigation with loop closure capabilities for Micro Aerial Vehicles in indoor and urban environments","authors":"Philipp Crocoll, Tim Caselitz, Bastian Hettich, M. Langer, G. Trommer","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851395","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a laser-aided navigation system for Micro Aerial Vehicles. It is based on a Kalman filter so that GNSS measurements can be incorporated if available. For GNSS-denied areas, the Kalman filter also processes relative pose measurements extracted from laser data. A novel approach for laser-aided Kalman filter navigation is presented which allows using multiple reference scans simultaneously. Furthermore, an addition to avoid growth of the heading angle error is described. Because this Kalman filter based system is a relative navigation system, its position error grows with time. To avoid such an error growth in GNSS denied environments, the Kalman filter is augmented with loop closure detection. A technique is proposed to represent such information in a pose graph and to calculate an improved navigation solution including an error covariance based on covariance intersection. The successful operation of the presented system is validated in several experiments including real flight data, large loops and an outdoor-indoor-outdoor transition.","PeriodicalId":371808,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium - PLANS 2014","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114307947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polynomial expansion for range image segmentation and classification of the environment","authors":"Brian Okorn, Josh Harguess","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851460","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we introduce a method that utilizes a high-order polynomial expansion of range imagery for the purposes of image segmentation and classification. The use of polynomial expansion has been quite successful in segmenting and estimating optical flow in 2D imagery, but has not been used extensively in 3D or range imagery. We derive features using the coefficients of the high-order polynomial expansion and use those features for local and global segmentation of the range image. Finally, we classify the segments based on the features within each segment. Promising results are shown on range images from the Odetic lidar database.","PeriodicalId":371808,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium - PLANS 2014","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124484872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Susi, M. Aquino, R. Romero, F. Dovis, M. Andreotti
{"title":"Design of a robust receiver architecture for scintillation monitoring","authors":"M. Susi, M. Aquino, R. Romero, F. Dovis, M. Andreotti","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851359","url":null,"abstract":"Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) signals traversing small scale irregularities present in the ionosphere may experience fast and unpredictable fluctuations of their amplitude and phase. This phenomenon can seriously affect the performance of a GNSS receiver, decreasing the position accuracy and, in the worst scenario, also inducing a total loss of lock on the satellite signals. This paper proposes an adaptive Kalman Filter (KF) based Phase Locked Loop (PLL) to cope with high dynamics and strong fading induced by ionospheric scintillation events. The KF based PLL self-tunes the covariance matrix according to the detected scintillation level. Furthermore, the paper shows that radio frequency interference can affect the reliable computation of scintillation parameters. In order to mitigate the effect of the interference signal and filter it out, a wavelet based interference mitigation algorithm has been also implemented. The latter is able to retrieve genuine scintillation indices that otherwise would be corrupted by radio frequency interference.","PeriodicalId":371808,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium - PLANS 2014","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123991889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PIC technique with reduced complexity in GPS","authors":"K. Yoo, S. Kong","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851415","url":null,"abstract":"As demand increases for the Global positioning System (GPS) to provide precise positioning information in harsh environments such as dense urban and indoor areas, searching weak detection signals has become one of the main issues in GPS. Among the issues, the cross correlation effect between satellite signals is one of the problems which degrade signal acquisition performance especially in harsh environments. This problem also occurs when the pseudolite which transmits very strong signal compared to satellite signal exists near the receiver. For this reason, a number of techniques that mitigate the effects of cross correlation have been researched. However, since these techniques have high computational complexity and are time consuming, there are some difficulties in implementing these techniques. In this paper, a new technique based on Parallel Interference Cancellation (PIC) to reduce the computational complexity is proposed and evaluated with conventional PIC technique.","PeriodicalId":371808,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium - PLANS 2014","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130099668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An analysis on ASF variations and temperature","authors":"S.W. Hwang, Y. S. Choi, S. J. Lee, S. H. Yang","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851454","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is aimed to analyze a relationship between the temporal ASF and the temperature in Loran-C signal. Through explanations of the ground-wave propagation model and its application, the relationship between the conductivity and the temperature are explained for understanding the ASF in LORAN signal. To verifying the relationship, the experimental environment is proposed with several assumptions. The relative ASF and the temperature measurements are shown with its analysis results. Also, the temperature compensation results reflecting the analysis results are represented to verify an availability of relationship between the temporal ASF and the temperature in Loran-C signal.","PeriodicalId":371808,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium - PLANS 2014","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131248943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. G. Pena, C. Macabiau, M. Mabilleau, Catalina, Rodriguez, Daniel Brocard
{"title":"Complementary signal structure proposals for future airborne SBAS L5 signal and other non-airborne applications","authors":"A. G. Pena, C. Macabiau, M. Mabilleau, Catalina, Rodriguez, Daniel Brocard","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851391","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies complementary signal structures to the SBAS L5 SIS ICD definition which increases its original bit rate without degrading or even improving the SBAS L5 SIS ICD signal key performances. The proposition of this paper is based on modifying only certain characteristics of the current SBAS L5 SIS ICD signal structure and on keeping the signal characteristics which allow a perfect compatibility with SBAS L5 SIS ICD message content: symbol rate, bit information rate (250 bps), basic information units of 250 bits and capability of interrupting the nominal message at each second in order to transmit alarm messages. The main signal design modifications are first the introduction of linear block channel codes, instead of a convolutional code, in order to reduce header and CRC bits and in order to decrease the signal demodulation threshold. Second, new signal components, such as the synchronization component or a second data component, are introduced allowing an easier synchronization and increasing the effective bit rate. Smart combinations of the two data components are suggested to not degrade the final demodulation threshold. Finally, the selective introduction of a Code Shift Keying (CSK) modulation is also proposed to further increase the bit rate. Demodulation, carrier phase tracking and secondary PRN code acquisition performances are explained and analyzed for the complementary proposed signal structures.","PeriodicalId":371808,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium - PLANS 2014","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131191242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A least squares approach to size effect in inertial navigation","authors":"Sharon Eilon","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851438","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the size effect problem in high-end Inertial Navigation Systems (INS). A focus is given to velocity errors in the geographical frame, which endure even after dynamic angular conditions are terminated. A least squares (LS) approach is taken to derive an algorithm for size effect compensation. The suggested algorithm implementation is based on low computation rate and does not involve highsampled increments. A performance analysis of the algorithm is presented, both in simulation and in real-life systems' tests.","PeriodicalId":371808,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium - PLANS 2014","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127641864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cycle slip detection and repair with triple frequency combination method","authors":"Lin Zhao, Yue Liu, Liang Li, Na Li","doi":"10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851451","url":null,"abstract":"As the application field of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) is expanding, users have increasing demand of real-time positioning accuracy. The modernization of the global positioning system and the development of BDS (BeiDou Navigation Satellite System) will lead to a more high-accuracy on-the-fly positioning system. Unlike GPS, BDS is consists of MEO, GEO and IGSO satellites. The presence of the S band provided by RDSS from GEO satellites has introduced more degrees of freedom for observation data combination. We establish geometric-free and ionosphere-free linear combinations of BDS observations on the three of B1-B2-B3-S band with the aim to enhance the sensibility of detecting and repair cycle slips in real time. The small cycle slips can be magnified by the linear combinations. Therefore, the three combination cycle slips are detected. Once the combination cycle slips have been detected, the real cycle slips on each frequency can be estimated using the combination coefficients and the jumps can be fixed. These combinations are defined with the aims of long wavelength and weakening geometric and ionosphere errors. In this paper, some principles are established to appraise the performance of these combinations in order to obtain the optimal combinations. A combination method to detect and repair the small cycle slips for triple frequency of BDS is proposed. Some simulations based on real collection data have been carried out and the results have showed the proposed method is able to detect and repair both big and small cycle slips (even smaller than 1 cycle) on each carriers.","PeriodicalId":371808,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium - PLANS 2014","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128511654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}