Relative Localization for Aerial Manipulation with PL-SLAM

This chapter explains a precise SLAM technique, PL-SLAM, that allows to simultaneously process points and lines and tackle situations where point-only based methods are prone to fail, like poorly textured scenes or motion blurred images where feature points are vanished out. The method is remarkably robust against image noise, and that it outperforms state-of-the-art methods for point based contour alignment. The method can run in real-time and in a low cost hardware.