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StructVIO : Visual-inertial Odometry with Structural Regularity of Man-made Environments
We propose a novel visual-inertial odometry approach that adopts structural
regularity in man-made environments. Instead of using Manhattan world
assumption, we use Atlanta world model to describe such regularity. An Atlanta
world is a world that contains multiple local Manhattan worlds with different
heading directions. Each local Manhattan world is detected on-the-fly, and
their headings are gradually refined by the state estimator when new
observations are coming. With fully exploration of structural lines that
aligned with each local Manhattan worlds, our visual-inertial odometry method
become more accurate and robust, as well as much more flexible to different
kinds of complex man-made environments. Through extensive benchmark tests and
real-world tests, the results show that the proposed approach outperforms
existing visual-inertial systems in large-scale man-made environmentsComment: 15 pages,15 figure
Persistent Upflows and Downflows at Active Region boundaries Observed by SUTRI and AIA
Upflows and downflows at active region (AR) boundaries have been frequently
observed with spectroscopic observations at extreme ultraviolet (EUV)
passbands. In this paper, we report the coexistence of upflows and downflows at
the AR boundaries with imaging observations from the Solar Upper Transition
Region Imager (SUTRI) and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA). With their
observations from 2022 September 21 to 2022 September 30, we find 17 persistent
opposite flows occurring along the AR coronal loops. The upflows are prominent
in the AIA 193 \AA images with a velocity of 50-200 km/s, while the downflows
are best seen in the SUTRI 465 \AA and AIA 131 \AA images with a slower
velocity of tens of kilometers per second (characteristic temperatures (log
T(K)) for 193 \AA, 465 \AA and 131 \AA are 6.2, 5.7, 5.6, respectively). We
also analyze the center-to-limb variation of the velocities for both upflows
and downflows. The simultaneous observations of downflows and upflows can be
explained by the chromosphere-corona mass-cycling process, in which the
localized chromospheric plasma is impulsively heated to coronal temperature
forming a upflow and then these upflows experience radiative cooling producing
a downflow with the previously heated plasma returning to the lower atmosphere.
In particular, the persistent downflows seen by SUTRI provide strong evidence
of the cooling process in the mass cycle. For upflows associated with open
loops, part of the plasma is able to escape outward and into the heliosphere as
solar wind
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