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JRM Vol.23 No.2 pp. 292-301
doi: 10.20965/jrm.2011.p0292
(2011)

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3D Terrain Reconstruction by Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Using SIFT-Based Monocular SLAM

Taro Suzuki*, Yoshiharu Amano*, Takumi Hashizume*,
and Shinji Suzuki**

*Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 17 Kikui-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0044, Japan

**Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

Received:
October 6, 2010
Accepted:
February 7, 2011
Published:
April 20, 2011
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Keywords:
SLAM, SIFT, UAV, 3D reconstruction
Abstract
This paper describes a Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) algorithm using a monocular camera for a small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). A small UAV has attracted the attention for effective means of the collecting aerial information. However, there are few practical applications due to its small payloads for the 3D measurement. We propose extended Kalman filter SLAM to increase UAV position and attitude data and to construct 3D terrain maps using a small monocular camera. We propose 3D measurement based on Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) triangulation features extracted from captured images. Field-experiment results show that our proposal effectively estimates position and attitude of the UAV and construct the 3D terrain map.
Cite this article as:
T. Suzuki, Y. Amano, T. Hashizume, and S. Suzuki, “3D Terrain Reconstruction by Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Using SIFT-Based Monocular SLAM,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.23 No.2, pp. 292-301, 2011.
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