Particle Filter Approach to Vision-Based Navigation with Aerial Image Segmentation
- 1 December 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in Journal of Aerospace Information Systems
- Vol. 18 (12), 964-972
- https://doi.org/10.2514/1.i010957
Abstract
This study proposes a novel approach for a vision-based navigation problem using semantically segmented aerial images generated by a convolutional neural network. Vision-based navigation provides a position solution by matching an aerial image to a georeferenced database, and it has been increasingly studied for global navigation satellite system–denied environments. Aerial images include a vast amount of information that infers the position where they are located. However, it also includes features that disturb the estimation accuracy. The progress of convolutional neural network may provide a promising solution for extracting only helpful features for this purpose. Therefore, segmented images are modeled as a Gaussian mixture model, and the distance for a quantitative discrepancy between two images is established. This allows us to compare the two images quickly with improved accuracy. In addition, a framework of a particle filter is applied to estimate the position using an inertial navigation system. It employs the distance as a measurement, and the particles tend to converge to the true position. Flight test experiments were conducted to verify that the proposed approach achieved distance error of less than 10 m.
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