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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2016
Applicant:
Regents of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Inventors:
Stergios I. Roumeliotis, St Paul, MN (US);
Dimitrios G. Kottas, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Assignee:
Regents of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/16 (2006.01); G06K 9/52 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/20 (2006.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G06T 7/277 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/165 (2013.01); G06K 9/52 (2013.01); G06K 9/6267 (2013.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G06T 7/277 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30244 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vision-aided inertial navigation system (VINS) is described in which a filter-based sliding-window estimator implements an Iterative Kalman Smoother (IKS) to track the 3D motion of a VINS system, such as a mobile device, in real-time using visual and inertial measurements.