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In this paper we demonstrate the online applicability of the fault detection and diagnosis approach which we previously developed and published in 1. In our former work we showed that a purely data driven fault detection approach can be successfully built based on monitored inter-component communication data of a robotic system and used for a-posteriori fault detection. Here we propose an extension to this approach which is capable of online learning of the fault model as well as for online fault detection. We evaluate the application of our approach in the context of a RoboCup task executed by our service robot BIRON in corporation with an expert user. © 2011 IEEE

Inertia-visual sensor fusion has become popular due to the complementary characteristics of cameras and IMUs. Once the spatial and temporal alignment between the sensors is known, the fusion of measurements of these devices is straightforward. Determining the alignment, however, is a challenging problem. Especially the spatial translation estimation has turned out to be difficult, mainly due to limitations of camera dynamics and noisy accelerometer measurements. Up to now, filtering-based approaches for this calibration problem are largely prevalent. However, we are not convinced that calibration, as an offline step, is necessarily a filtering issue, and we explore the benefits of interpreting it as a batch-optimization problem. To this end, we show how to model the IMU-camera calibration problem in a nonlinear optimization framework by modeling the sensors' trajectory, and we present experiments comparing this approach to filtering and system identification techniques. The results are based both on simulated and real data, showing that our approach compares favorably to conventional methods.

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