Two Measurement Scenarios for Anonymous Mutual Localization in Multi-UAV Systems

Abstract: We present a method for reconstructing the relative poses among the components of a multi-UAV system using anonymous (i.e., without identity information) robot-to-robot measurements. We consider two cases: bearing-only and bearing+distance measurements. While bearing can be rather directly extracted from a camera image, visual reconstruction of distances is more elaborate and typically associated with a larger noise. Nevertheless, our experiments show that use of such metric information improves significantly the quality of the localization