Distributed Variable-Baseline Stereo SLAM from two UAVs

Marco Karrer,Margarita Chli,Marco Karrer,Margarita Chli

Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) has been widely used and researched to control and aid the automation of navigation of robots especially in the absence of absolute position measurements, such as GPS. However, when the observable landmarks in the scene lie far away, as in high-altitude flights for example, the fidelity of the metric scale estimate in VIO greatly degrades. Aiming to tackle this issue...