Optical Flow-Based Odometry for Underground Tunnel Exploration

by Kier, Terra
ISBN: 9781288305841
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Overview

As military operations in degraded or GPS-denied environments continue to increase in frequency and importance, there is an increased necessity to be able to determine precision location within these environments. Furthermore, authorities are finding a record number of tunnels along the U.S.-Mexico border; therefore, underground tunnel characterization is becoming a high priority for U.S. Homeland Security as well. This thesis investigates the performance of a new image registration technique based on a two camera optical- flow configuration using phase correlation techniques. These techniques differ from other image based navigation methods but present a viable alternative increasing autonomy and answering the tunnel based navigation problem. This research presents an optical flow based image registration technique and validates its use with experimental results on a mobile vehicle. Results reveal that further extension to pose estimation yields accuracy within 1:3 cm.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Kier, Terra
  • ISBN: 9781288305841
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 9.69 x 0.14
  • Number Of Pages: 66
  • Publication Year: 2012
Language: English