Visual Odometry Approaches to Autonomous Navigation for Multicopter Model in Virtual Indoor Environment

  • Alexandr Abdulov
  • Alexandr Abramenkov
  • Andrey Shevlyakov
Keywords: indoor navigation, UAV, autonomous flight, visual odometry

Abstract

Using simulators and virtual environments can simplify the development and testing of various control, behavior and navigation scenarios significantly. In this article we describe our experience using the ROS environment and the Gazebo simulator to develop an autonomous multicopter UAV that can navigate an unknown building and locate an exit using computer vision techniques.

Published
2018-10-31