PL-VIWO: A Lightweight and Robust Point-Line Monocular Visual Inertial Wheel Odometry

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Main Authors: Zhang, Zhixin, Bai, Wenzhi, Zhao, Liang, Ladosz, Pawel
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Published: 2025
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author Zhang, Zhixin
Bai, Wenzhi
Zhao, Liang
Ladosz, Pawel
author_facet Zhang, Zhixin
Bai, Wenzhi
Zhao, Liang
Ladosz, Pawel
contents This paper presents a novel tightly coupled Filter-based monocular visual-inertial-wheel odometry (VIWO) system for ground robots, designed to deliver accurate and robust localization in long-term complex outdoor navigation scenarios. As an external sensor, the camera enhances localization performance by introducing visual constraints. However, obtaining a sufficient number of effective visual features is often challenging, particularly in dynamic or low-texture environments. To address this issue, we incorporate the line features for additional geometric constraints. Unlike traditional approaches that treat point and line features independently, our method exploits the geometric relationships between points and lines in 2D images, enabling fast and robust line matching and triangulation. Additionally, we introduce Motion Consistency Check (MCC) to filter out potential dynamic points, ensuring the effectiveness of point feature updates. The proposed system was evaluated on publicly available datasets and benchmarked against state-of-the-art methods. Experimental results demonstrate superior performance in terms of accuracy, robustness, and efficiency. The source code is publicly available at: https://github.com/Happy-ZZX/PL-VIWO
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spellingShingle PL-VIWO: A Lightweight and Robust Point-Line Monocular Visual Inertial Wheel Odometry
Zhang, Zhixin
Bai, Wenzhi
Zhao, Liang
Ladosz, Pawel
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This paper presents a novel tightly coupled Filter-based monocular visual-inertial-wheel odometry (VIWO) system for ground robots, designed to deliver accurate and robust localization in long-term complex outdoor navigation scenarios. As an external sensor, the camera enhances localization performance by introducing visual constraints. However, obtaining a sufficient number of effective visual features is often challenging, particularly in dynamic or low-texture environments. To address this issue, we incorporate the line features for additional geometric constraints. Unlike traditional approaches that treat point and line features independently, our method exploits the geometric relationships between points and lines in 2D images, enabling fast and robust line matching and triangulation. Additionally, we introduce Motion Consistency Check (MCC) to filter out potential dynamic points, ensuring the effectiveness of point feature updates. The proposed system was evaluated on publicly available datasets and benchmarked against state-of-the-art methods. Experimental results demonstrate superior performance in terms of accuracy, robustness, and efficiency. The source code is publicly available at: https://github.com/Happy-ZZX/PL-VIWO
title PL-VIWO: A Lightweight and Robust Point-Line Monocular Visual Inertial Wheel Odometry
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00551