RGB-D Inertial Odometry for a Resource-Restricted Robot in Dynamic Environments
Abstract
Current simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms perform well in static environments but easily fail in dynamic environments. Recent works introduce deep learning-based semantic information to SLAM systems to reduce the influence of dynamic objects. However, it is still challenging to apply a robust localization in dynamic environments for resource-restricted robots. This paper proposes a real-time RGB-D inertial odometry system for resource-restricted robots in dynamic environments named Dynamic-VINS. Three main threads run in parallel: object detection, feature tracking, and state optimization. The proposed Dynamic-VINS combines object detection and depth information for dynamic feature recognition and achieves performance comparable to semantic segmentation. Dynamic-VINS adopts grid-based feature detection and proposes a fast and efficient method to extract high-quality FAST feature points. IMU is applied to predict motion for feature tracking and moving consistency check. The proposed method is evaluated on both public datasets and real-world applications and shows competitive localization accuracy and robustness in dynamic environments. Yet, to the best of our knowledge, it is the best-performance real-time RGB-D inertial odometry for resource-restricted platforms in dynamic environments for now. The proposed system is open source at: https://github.com/HITSZ-NRSL/Dynamic-VINS.git
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@article{arxiv.2304.10987,
title = {RGB-D Inertial Odometry for a Resource-Restricted Robot in Dynamic Environments},
author = {Jianheng Liu and Xuanfu Li and Yueqian Liu and Haoyao Chen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.10987},
year = {2023}
}