An Enhanced Positioning Method for Underground Cable Seeker Based on Vision-Inertial Sensors
摘要
When accidents occur during the construction of power cables, blindly troubleshooting without accurately identifying the locations of underground cable locations will lead to increased workload. As such, a new method is proposed to locate underground cable seeker by combining visual and inertial sensors, generating precise motion trajectories. An adaptive gray threshold strategy is employed to address the poor quality of feature points extracted in conventional visual navigation. In addition, a loosely coupled algorithm based on dual Kalman filters is employed to overcome the issues of excessive filtering cycles and low data utilization in conventional filtering algorithms. This method uses inertial and visual sensors to estimate the cable motion trajectory separately and fuses the two trajectories together through filtering, effectively eliminating trajectory errors. In the simulation, this method can guide the carrier more than 500s, during which the carrier can travel a distance of 125 m. The final distance velocity error of this method is 42.64 cm and 2.55×10−3 m/s, while that generated by the conventional method is 156.47 cm and 7.8×10−3 m/s. This method has significantly higher accuracy compared to conventional navigation algorithms.