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Marker-Based Localization System Using an Active PTZ Camera and CNN-Based Ellipse Detection
Ist Teil von
IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics, 2023-08, Vol.28 (4), p.1984-1992
Ort / Verlag
New York: IEEE
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
Quelle
IEEE Xplore
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Localization in GPS-denied environments is challenging, and many existing solutions have infrastructural and on-site calibration requirements. This article tackles these challenges by proposing a localization system that is infrastructure free and does not require on-site calibration, using a single active pan-tilt-zoom camera to detect, track, and localize a circular LED marker. We propose to use a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained using only synthetic images to detect the LED marker as an ellipse and show that our approach is more robust than using traditional ellipse detection without requiring tuning of parameters for feature extraction. We also propose to leverage the predicted elliptical angle as a measure of uncertainty of the CNN's predictions and show how it can be used in a filter to improve marker range estimation and 3-D localization. We evaluate our system's performance through localization of a unmanned aerial vehicle in real-world flight experiments and show that it can outperform alternative methods for localization in GPS-denied environments. We also demonstrate our system's performance in indoor and outdoor environments.