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Integrity of Visual Navigation—Developments, Challenges, and Prospects

Chen Zhu, Michael Meurer, and Christoph Günther
NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation June 2022, 69 (2) navi.518; DOI: https://doi.org/10.33012/navi.518
Chen Zhu
1Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
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1Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
2Chair of Navigation, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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Christoph Günther
1Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
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    Reference frames in visual positioning; the blue stars with different shapes illustrate four feature points in the 3D space, and the round dots are their 2D projection in the image plane (the projection rays are denoted by dashed lines).

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    Fundamental procedure and error space propagation of visual positioning

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    An example of overexposure effect

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    An example of motion blur effect; images from public data set (Seibold et al., 2017)

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    An example of wrong association and outlier features; images from public data set (Geiger et al., 2012)

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    Concept of the Stanford-ESA Integrity Diagram (European Space Agency, 2011)

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    Different lighting conditions for local corners

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    An example of initial guess impact on pose estimation; the blue circles illustrate the position of the five feature points used in the simulation.

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    Potential overexposure impacts; the red circles and blue dots denote the feature point location in the image with lower and higher overexposure respectively. Image from public data set (Delmerico et al., 2019).

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    Potential motion blur impacts; the blue circles denote the original corner location, while the red stars denote the corners extracted due to motion blur. Image from public data set (Delmerico et al., 2019).

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    Integrity framework for visual positioning

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    Examples of Positioning Integrity Requirements for Safety-Critical Applications

    ApplicationIntegrity riskAlert limit
    CAT I landing1≤ 10−7≤ 10m
    CAT II/III landing≤ 10−9≤ 10m
    Autonomous driving≤ 10−6≤ 2.5m
    Train track change≤ 10−8≤ 2.5m
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    Summary of Important Approaches on Visual Navigation Integrity

    ReferenceTackled ProblemSensor SetupIntegrity of VisionError QuantificationMonitored Vision Error Source
    Mario and Rife (2010)lane localizationcameraconsideredw/ad-hoc parameterintensity domain detection error
    Shytermeja et al. (2014)urban navigationcamera+GNSS+IMUnot consideredonly for GNSSvision not monitored
    Fu et al. (2015)landing aircraft positioningcamera+GNSSpartially consideredaddressedhigh-level feature domain biases
    Calhoun et al. (2015)relative positioningcameraconsideredaddressedposition domain nominal error
    Zhu and Taylor (2017)correlation of errorcamera+IMUconsideredaddressedposition domain covariance error
    Yang et al. (2018)error modelcamera+IMUconsideredw/ad-hoc parameterfeature association error
    Al Hage et al. (2019)lane localizationcamera+GNSSpartially consideredonly for GNSShigh-level feature domain biases
    Zhu et al. (2019a 2019b)error model & propagationcameraconsideredaddressedfeature domain noise
    Zhu et al. (2020)landmark associationcameraconsideredaddressedfeature association error
    Bhamidipati and Gao (2020)urban navigationcamera+GNSSconsideredaddressedintensity domain biases
    Wang et al. (2020)urban navigationcameraconsideredaddressedfeature domain biases

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Chen Zhu, Michael Meurer,, Christoph Günther
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    • 1 INTRODUCTION
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    • 3 INTRODUCTION OF INTEGRITY
    • 4 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN VISUAL POSITIONING INTEGRITY
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