@inproceedings{discovery10068313, note = {This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.}, volume = {2018-J}, booktitle = {2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)}, pages = {2496--2501}, month = {March}, journal = {2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2017}, title = {UAV-based SLAM and 3D reconstruction system}, year = {2018}, publisher = {IEEE}, author = {Li, T and Hailes, S and Julier, S and Liu, M}, abstract = {3D reconstructing a landscape is a prevalent problem that attracts a lot of interest in recent years. This project intended to verify whether the hypothesis of a UAV-based SLAM and 3D reconstruction system is practical. A GPS-Fused SLAM system is built based on ORB-SLAM. Inverse depth is also implemented to make the system suitable for a UAV-based platform. Meanwhile, REMODE is a depth filter and is tested as not being well enough as a dense mapping module. In the end, PMVS is implemented to build a dense map of the environment which produces a reasonable result. The small-scale-scene experiments produce the total error ratio of 5.60\% in the x-y plane and 6.59\% in the z axis.}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBIO.2017.8324795} }