On the Design of Hybrid Pose and Velocity-bias Observers on Lie Group SE(3)

Abstract: This paper deals with the design of globally exponentially stable invariant observers on the Special Euclidian group SE(3). First, we propose a generic hybrid observer scheme (depending on a generic potential function) evolving on $SE(3)\times \mathbb{R}^6$ for pose (orientation and position) and velocity-bias estimation. Thereafter, the proposed observer is formulated explicitly in terms of inertial vectors and landmark measurements. Interestingly, the proposed observer leads to a decoupled rotational error dynamics from the translational dynamics, which is an interesting feature in practical applications with noisy measurements and disturbances.