This study presents a novel navigation method designed to support a real-time, efficient, accurate indoor localisation for mobile robot system. It is applicable for inertial measurement units (IMU) consisting of gyroscopes, accelerometers, and magnetic besides stereo vision (SV). The current indoor mobile robot localisation technology adopts traditional active sensing devices such as laser, and ultrasonic method which belongs to the signal of localisation and navigation method which has low efficiency complex structure, and poor anti-interference ability. Through dual Kalman filter (DKF) algorithm, the accumulated error of gyroscope can be reduced, while combining with SV, mobile robot binocular SV orientation of inertial location can be realised under the DKF mechanism, which is introduced. First, high precision posture information of mobile robot can be obtained using fusing Kalman filter algorithm of accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer data. Second, inertial measurement precision can be optimised using Kalman filtering algorithm combined with machine vision localisation algorithm. The results indicate that the method achieves the levels of accuracy location comparable with that of the IMU/SV fusion algorithm; <0.0066 static RMS error, <0.0056 dynamic RMS error. The mobile robot using DKF algorithm of inertial navigation and SV indoor localisation is feasible.

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Binocular stereovision-based positioning and inertial measurement-based positioning have their respective limitations. Asynchronous fusion of a binocular vision system and an inertial navigation system (INS) is therefore introduced to global positioning system-denied environments with a fuzzy map. It aims to provide a sequential and progressive update with regard to mobile robot positioning and navigation. The system consists of two off-the-shelf cameras and a low-cost inertial measurement unit (IMU). The localization procedure fuses the inertial data from the IMU and the absolute position data from the binocular vision system based on corners. The main contribution of this article is a novel fusion method adaptive to different data rates at which the two modules operate. Utilization of an asynchronous Kalman filter is proposed to fuse the results from the two modules, which can achieve intermittent correction for INS localization. Experiments were carried out in an indoor laboratory environment where dynamic tests validated the reliability and effectiveness of the proposed asynchronous fusion algorithm.

In the industrial field, industrial robots have taken over the heavy lifting that used to be done by traditional handicraft assembly lines, greatly freeing up human resources and improving production efficiency and safety. As a result, the focus of this paper is on the SLAM-based robot localization and navigation algorithm (simultaneous localization and mapping). An attitude estimation algorithm based on KF (Kalman filtering) information fusion of vision SLAM and IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) is proposed, and the ORB-SLAM algorithm is studied and perfected. The fusion of the two postures improves the accuracy and frequency of the robot’s attitude estimation during motion. In addition, PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization) technology is used to optimize the resampling process, and PSO optimizes the particle set to alleviate the problem of particle degradation and exhaustion caused by resampling in the FastSLAM algorithm. Finally, the algorithm is verified to meet the requirements of positioning and composition accuracy, as well as the feasibility and effectiveness of robot autonomous navigation, using the open simulation platform.