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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

A Novel Loosely Coupled Collaborative Localization Method Utilizing Integrated IMU-Aided Cameras for Multiple Autonomous Robots.

Cheng Liu, Tao Wang, Zhi Li, Shu Li, Peng Tian

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Cheng LiuState Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Safety Protection, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
Tao WangState Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Safety Protection, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0853-4432
Zhi LiState Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Safety Protection, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6722-1639
Shu LiSchool of Electrical Engineering, Liaoning University of Technology, Jinzhou 121000, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5828-3010
Peng TianSchool of Information Science and Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 401100, China.

Funding

Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of Chi-na 12221002National Key Research and Development Program of China 2022YFC3320503
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

IMUs (inertial measurement units) and cameras are popular sensors for autonomous localization due to their convenient integration. This article proposes a collaborative localization method, the CICEKF (collaborative IMU-aided camera extended Kalman filter), with a loosely coupled and two-step structure for the autonomous locomotion estimation of collaborative robots. The first step is for single-robot localization estimation, fusing and connecting the IMU and visual measurement data on the velocity level, which can improve the robustness and adaptability of different visual measurement approaches without redesigning the visual optimization process. The second step is for estimating the relative configuration of multiple robots, which further fuses the individual motion information to estimate the relative translation and rotation reliably. The simulation and experiment demonstrate that both steps of the filter are capable of accomplishing locomotion estimation missions, standalone or collaboratively.

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data fusionloosely coupled autonomous localizationmultiple robots collaborative localizationvisual–inertial odometry

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PMID40431878
PMCPMC12115067

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