MONOCULAR VISUAL ODOMETRY FOR IN-PIPE INSPECTION ROBOT

Authors

  • Herdawatie Abdul Kadir Department of Robotic & Mechatronic Engineering, Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Malaysia
  • M. R. Arshad Underwater, Control and Robotics Group (UCRG), School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia
  • Hamed Habibi Aghdam Underwater, Control and Robotics Group (UCRG), School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia
  • Munir Zaman Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus, Selangor, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v74.4806

Keywords:

Visual odometry, monocular, culverts, localize, image displacement

Abstract

This paper describes a monocular visual odometry technique for low texture environment localization. Estimating the pose of a robot in a small time interval is one of the challenging problems in robotics. Localization, mapping and motion planning are three fundamental problems which directly use the pose information of the robot to achieve their goal. In this work, we extract the pose information by processing image inside a concrete culvert which is taken by a camera attached to a mobile robot. We analyze different motion scenario using correlation based image to find displacement vector between two images. Real image data from the displacement of the robot are used to demonstrate the propose method. The experimental results show that the selected method proven efficient for the in-pipe inspection robot localization.

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Published

2015-06-21

Issue

Vol. 74 No. 9: Underwater System Technology: Theory and Applications

Section

Science and Engineering

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MONOCULAR VISUAL ODOMETRY FOR IN-PIPE INSPECTION ROBOT. (2015). Jurnal Teknologi (Sciences & Engineering), 74(9). https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v74.4806