A system comprises a chassis of a vehicle, a movable member movably coupled to the chassis, a feature board attached to the vehicle, and a visual IMU mounted on the vehicle. The visual IMU includes a camera having a field of view that includes the feature board. An auxiliary IMU is also mounted on…
A device may receive video data and corresponding GPS data and IMU data associated with a vehicle, and may process the video data, with an object detector model, to identify objects and to generate a first feature vector. The device may process the GPS data and the IMU data, with a first CNN model…
A transfer-alignment system for a Head-Mounted Display (HMD), and a display coupled to the HMD, wherein the display is adapted to display images rendered by a display-processor, and wherein the HMD is monitored by a tracking system configured to provide information indicating position and/or…
A visualization system for visualizing gas leak detection data including a processor in communication with at least one memory device is provided herein. The processor is configured to receive, from one or more sensors, gas measurement data for a plurality of measurement locations within a survey…
Eine absolute Position eines Fahrzeugs soll ermittelt werden. Dazu wird das Fahrzeug ausgehend von der absoluten Initialposition entlang einer Trajektorie (1) bewegt. Die Trajektorie (1) wird durch Odometrie ausgehend von einer definierten Initialposition (2), die der absoluten Initialposition…
An apparatus receives a first image captured by an image capture device of a mobile apparatus. The first image corresponds to surroundings of the mobile apparatus. Each artificial image of a first plurality of artificial images respectively is a two-dimensional projection of a three-dimensional…
A device may receive video data and corresponding GPS data and IMU data associated with a vehicle, and may process the video data, with an object detector model, to identify objects and to generate a first feature vector. The device may process the GPS data and the IMU data, with a first CNN model…
A device may receive video data and corresponding GPS data and IMU data associated with a vehicle, and may remove video frames from the video data to generate modified video data. The device may select objects and image regions of video frames of the modified video data, and may determine a current…
A system determines an accuracy of a set containing a plurality of sensor location measurements of a client device and generating a set of sensor location measurements labeled with an associated accuracy estimate, is presented. The system receives a plurality of sensor location measurements of the…
An inertial measurement unit evaluating method is for evaluating an accuracy of an inertial measurement unit included in an autonomous driving vehicle. The inertial measurement unit evaluating method includes an image capturing step, a vanishing line calculating step, an image parameter determining…
This invention refers to vehicle () comprising an inertial measurement unit () configured to output inertial related data, a wheel odometry unit () configured to output position related data, an electromagnetic sensor unit () configured to output first image data and second image data that is…
A vision-aided inertial navigation system (VINS) comprises an image source for producing image data along a trajectory. The VINS further comprises an inertial measurement unit (IMU) configured to produce IMU data indicative of motion of the VINS and an odometry unit configured to produce odometry…
A navigation system for an aircraft includes a microelectromechanical systems inertial measurement unit (MEMS-IMU), a camera that captures, over time, a series of images of the terrain below the aircraft, a terrain map comprising terrain elevation data, an inertial navigation system (INS) and an…
A computer-implemented method is presented for determining sampling rate for at least one of a camera and a receiver of a global navigation satellite system deployed in an autonomous vehicle. A Kalman filter is used for predicting a local sampling rate for the camera and a global sampling rate for…
A localization device and a localization method for a vehicle are provided. The localization device includes an inertia measurer, an encoder, an image capturing device, and a processor. The processor obtains an encoded data by the encoder to generate a first odometer data, obtains an inertial data…
A system is disclosed including at least one memory including computer program instructions, which when executed by at least one processor, cause the system to at least generate, based on a plurality of images from a camera, a first map including a first plurality of features; generate, based on…
The present disclosure relates to a method for determining a position and an orientation. The method () comprises the steps of obtaining () sensor data () comprising a plurality of images of Earth's surface from at least one calibrated camera; forming () a 3D reconstruction () of a part of Earth's…
Localization and navigation systems and techniques are described. An electronic device comprises a processor configured to maintain a state vector storing estimates for a position of the electronic device at poses along a trajectory within an environment along with estimates for positions for one…
By a state estimation device or a state estimation method, image data is read, a feature point included in the image data is extracted, the feature point is tracked, a position, a velocity, or an attitude of a mobile object is calculated based on inertia data, a bias error of an inertial…
Vision-aided inertial navigation techniques are described. In one example, a vision-aided inertial navigation system (VINS) comprises an image source to produce image data at a first set of time instances along a trajectory within a three-dimensional (3D) environment, wherein the image data…
The present invention relates to the technical field of automatic control. Provided are a vehicle positioning apparatus, system and method, and a vehicle. The vehicle positioning apparatus in the present invention is operated based on a plurality of signal transmitting units. The vehicle…
An apparatus including an interface and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive area data and sensor data from a plurality of vehicle sensors. The processor may be configured to extract road characteristics for a location from the area data, predict expected sensor readings at the…
Provided is a device including an acquisition unit that acquires information indicating a position estimation system selected from among a plurality of position estimation systems for estimating a position of a flight vehicle, and a position estimation unit that estimates the position of the flight…
A method, a system, and a computer program product for tracking an object moving relative to a moving platform, the moving platform moving relative to an external frame of reference. The system includes An inertial sensor for tracking the object relative to the external reference frame, a…
An augmented reality (AR) device and a method of predicting a pose in the AR device is provided. In the augmented reality (AR) device inertial measurement unit (IMU) values corresponding to the movement of the AR device are obtained at an IMU rate, intermediate 6-degrees of freedom (6D) poses of…
Ein Aspekt der Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren zum Beurteilen einer Genauigkeit einer Positionsbestimmung einer Landmarke (A, B, G, S, V) in einer Umgebung (3) eines Fahrzeugs (1), bei welchem eine aus einer globalen Karte (7) ausgewählten Landmarke (A, B, G, S, V) entfernt wird, die globale…
A vision-aided inertial navigation system (VINS) implements a square-root multi- state constraint Kalman filter (SR-MSCKF) for navigation. In one example, a processor of a VINS receives image data and motion data for a plurality of poses of a frame of reference along a trajectory. The processor…
Localization and navigation systems and techniques are described. An electronic device comprises a processor configured to maintain a state vector storing estimates for a position of the electronic device at poses along a trajectory within an environment along with estimates for positions for one…
A driver assistance system for an ego vehicle, and a method for a driver assistance system is provided. The system is configured to refine a coarse geolocation method based on the detection of the static features located in the vicinity of the ego vehicle. The system performs at least one…
A map establishment method and a map establishment system are provided. The map establishment method includes: detecting a physical motion performed by a user and generating motion sensing data by at least one motion sensor; obtaining spatial dimension information, in multiple directions, of a…