Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2020, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (1): 166-171.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-506X.2020.01.22

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Collaborative navigation of air-ground multi-agent based on hierarchical SLAM

Xiaolong WANG(), Haiying LIU(), Jingqi WANG()   

  1. College of Astronautics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
  • Received:2019-04-29 Online:2020-01-01 Published:2019-12-23
  • Supported by:
    中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金(NS2019047);江苏省自然科学基金(BK20161490)

Abstract:

Aiming at the problem that global navigation satellite system(GNSS) is easily occluded or interfered in the navigation process and error accumulation of inertial navigation, a vision-based hierarchical simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) air-ground multi-agent coordination algorithm is proposed. By establishing the system model, the hierarchical SLAM algorithm based on the extended Kalman filter is used to fuse three different feature points including the Euclidean point, the inverse depth point and the anchor one, so the navigation system is assisted and enhanced. The simulation experiment is designed and carried out for the air-ground collaborative scene. The results show that the air-ground coordination method can reduce the position error down by 40%; after using the anchored homogenous point, the false recognition rate is reduced from 49% to 4%. The experimental results show that the algorithm has good positioning accuracy, practicability and effectiveness.

Key words: visual navigation, air-ground multi-agent (AGMA), coordination navigation, hierarchical simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), general loop closure, extended Kalman filter (EKF)

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