Development of visual-inertial navigation technology

The concept of visual navigation, an overview of technologies and algorithms in the field of visual odometry (VO) simultaneous positioning and mapping based on machine vision VSLAM (vision based simultaneous localization and mapping) are presented. The technologies of visual-inertial navigation, modern algorithms of tightly coupled integrated systems are described, their promising development directions are outlined. Keywords visual-inertial navigation, SLAM, VSLAM, VO, odometer, filtering, optimization, deep learning