Range-focused fusion of camera-IMU-UWB for accurate and drift-reduced localization

TH Nguyen, TM Nguyen, L Xie - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we present a tightly-coupled fusion scheme of a monocular camera, a 6-DoF
IMU, and a single unknown Ultra-wideband (UWB) anchor to achieve accurate and drift …

Viral-fusion: A visual-inertial-ranging-lidar sensor fusion approach

TM Nguyen, M Cao, S Yuan, Y Lyu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, onboard self-localization (OSL) methods based on cameras or lidar have
achieved many significant progresses. However, some issues such as estimation drift and …

Survey on localization systems and algorithms for unmanned systems

S Yuan, H Wang, L Xie - Unmanned Systems, 2021 - World Scientific
Intelligent unmanned systems have important applications, such as pesticide-spraying in
agriculture, robot-based warehouse management systems, and missile-firing drones. The …

VIR-SLAM: Visual, inertial, and ranging SLAM for single and multi-robot systems

Y Cao, G Beltrame - Autonomous Robots, 2021 - Springer
Monocular cameras coupled with inertial measurements generally give high performance
visual inertial odometry. However, drift can be significant with long trajectories, especially …

Miliom: Tightly coupled multi-input lidar-inertia odometry and mapping

TM Nguyen, S Yuan, M Cao, L Yang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter we investigate a tightly coupled Lidar-Inertia Odometry and Mapping (LIOM)
scheme, with the capability to incorporate multiple lidars with complementary field of view …

An optimization-based UWB-IMU fusion framework for UGV

S Zheng, Z Li, Y Liu, H Zhang, X Zou - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
UWB and IMU fusion positioning methods have been widely concerned for its high accuracy
and robustness in GNSS-denied environment. However, most of the existing methods are …

LIRO: Tightly coupled lidar-inertia-ranging odometry

TM Nguyen, M Cao, S Yuan, Y Lyu… - … on robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, thanks to the continuously reduced cost and weight of 3D lidar, the
applications of this type of sensor in the community have become increasingly popular …

[HTML][HTML] Review on Security Range Perception Methods and Path-Planning Techniques for Substation Mobile Robots

J Zheng, T Chen, J He, Z Wang, B Gao - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
The use of mobile robots in substations improves maintenance efficiency and ensures the
personal safety of staff working at substations, which is a trend in the development of …

Tightly-coupled ultra-wideband-aided monocular visual SLAM with degenerate anchor configurations

TH Nguyen, TM Nguyen, L Xie - Autonomous Robots, 2020 - Springer
This paper proposes an enhanced tightly-coupled sensor fusion scheme using a monocular
camera and ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging sensors for the task of simultaneous localization …

RVIO: An Effective Localization Algorithm for Range-Aided Visual-Inertial Odometry System

J Wang, P Gu, L Wang, Z Meng - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an efficient and accurate range-aided visual-inertial odometry (RVIO)
system for the global positioning system denied environment. In particular, the ultra …