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Newton-PnP: Real-time Visual Navigation for Autonomous Toy-Drones

5 March 2022
Ibrahim Jubran
Fares Fares
Yuval Alfassi
Firas Ayoub
Dan Feldman
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Abstract

The Perspective-n-Point problem aims to estimate the relative pose between a calibrated monocular camera and a known 3D model, by aligning pairs of 2D captured image points to their corresponding 3D points in the model. We suggest an algorithm that runs on weak IoT devices in real-time but still provides provable theoretical guarantees for both running time and correctness. Existing solvers provide only one of these requirements. Our main motivation was to turn the popular DJI's Tello Drone (<90gr, <\100) into an autonomous drone that navigates in an indoor environment with no external human/laptop/sensor, by simply attaching a Raspberry PI Zero (<9gr, <\25) to it. This tiny micro-processor takes as input a real-time video from a tiny RGB camera, and runs our PnP solver on-board. Extensive experimental results, open source code, and a demonstration video are included.

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