access icon free Longitudinal error improvement by visual odometry trajectory trail and road segment matching

As one of the key requirements in the intelligent vehicle, accurate and precise localisation is essential to ensure swift route planning during the drive. In this study, the authors would like to reduce the longitudinal positioning error that remains as a challenge in accurate localisation. To solve this, they propose a data fusion method by integrating information from visual odometry (VO), noisy GPS, and road information obtained from the publicly available digital map with particle filter. The curve of the VO trajectory trail is compared with road segments curve to increase longitudinal accuracy. This method is validated by KITTI dataset, tested with different GPS noise conditions, and the results show improved localisation for both lateral and longitudinal positioning errors.

Inspec keywords: Global Positioning System; distance measurement; particle filtering (numerical methods); road vehicles; sensor fusion

Other keywords: lateral positioning errors; data fusion method; road segment matching; visual odometry trajectory trail; longitudinal positioning errors; swift route planning; digital map; intelligent vehicle; road segments curve; noisy GPS; VO trajectory trail; GPS noise conditions; road information; longitudinal error improvement

Subjects: Interpolation and function approximation (numerical analysis); Radionavigation and direction finding; Sensing devices and transducers; Filtering methods in signal processing; Satellite communication systems; Spatial variables measurement

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