Hi colleagues, 

I have been working with estimating the flight altitude of Aerial robots using 3D planar SLAM from the point cloud data of an RGB-D camera. I extract the 3D horizontal planar surfaces and map them in order to localize the aerial robot in its flight altitude.

I am starting a project where I would like to achieve also the x and y-axis localization of the aerial robots. As the RGB-D sensors are noisy, extracting the vertical planes for localizing in x and y-axis, using 3D planar SLAM techniques becomes a difficult problem.

I am looking for ideas where I can combine a 3D planar SLAM algorithm with a visual SLAM algorithm in order to achieve a robust localization in unstructured and unknown environments. I would appreciate any papers or suggestion regarding this topic.

Thanks.

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