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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2014
Applicant:
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Inventor:
Anastasios Mourikis, Riverside, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/00 (2006.01); G01C 21/16 (2006.01); G01S 19/13 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/16 (2013.01); G01C 21/165 (2013.01); G01S 19/13 (2013.01);
Abstract
A mobile platform having a camera for outputting image data of features with unknown locations, an inertial measurement unit for outputting inertial measurements of the features, where the coordinates of the features are unknown, a processor, storage and an extended-Kalman filter-based estimator executable on the processor for processing the inertial measurement and features of the image data, where a state vector of the estimator contains a sliding window of states for determining the position and orientation of the mobile platform.