A2VISR: An Active and Adaptive Ground-Aerial Localization System Using Visual Inertial and Single-Range Fusion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16367v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:07:06 GMT
• Title: A2VISR: An Active and Adaptive Ground-Aerial Localization System Using Visual Inertial and Single-Range Fusion
• Abstract summary: It's a practical approach using the ground-aerial collaborative system to enhance the localization robustness of flying robots in cluttered environments.<n>We improve the ground-aerial localization framework in a more comprehensive manner, which integrates active vision, single-ranging, inertialometry, and optical flow.<n>The proposed approach achieves robust online localization, with an average root mean square error of approximately 0.09 m, while maintaining resilience to capture loss and sensor failures.
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• Abstract: It's a practical approach using the ground-aerial collaborative system to enhance the localization robustness of flying robots in cluttered environments, especially when visual sensors degrade. Conventional approaches estimate the flying robot's position using fixed cameras observing pre-attached markers, which could be constrained by limited distance and susceptible to capture failure. To address this issue, we improve the ground-aerial localization framework in a more comprehensive manner, which integrates active vision, single-ranging, inertial odometry, and optical flow. First, the designed active vision subsystem mounted on the ground vehicle can be dynamically rotated to detect and track infrared markers on the aerial robot, improving the field of view and the target recognition with a single camera. Meanwhile, the incorporation of single-ranging extends the feasible distance and enhances re-capture capability under visual degradation. During estimation, a dimension-reduced estimator fuses multi-source measurements based on polynomial approximation with an extended sliding window, balancing computational efficiency and redundancy. Considering different sensor fidelities, an adaptive sliding confidence evaluation algorithm is implemented to assess measurement quality and dynamically adjust the weighting parameters based on moving variance. Finally, extensive experiments under conditions such as smoke interference, illumination variation, obstacle occlusion, prolonged visual loss, and extended operating range demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves robust online localization, with an average root mean square error of approximately 0.09 m, while maintaining resilience to capture loss and sensor failures.

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