The invention relates to a multi-
robot relative positioning method based on multi-
sensor fusion, and aims to realize a configuration sensing function during cooperative transportation of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles and provide
pose information for formation keeping of a control module. According to the technical scheme, the method comprises the following steps that a single
machine estimates visual poses of other unmanned aerial vehicles in a visual
visible range; IMU information is fused with
visual estimation and UWB
ranging information; and positioning results are fused among multiple machines. Due to the fact that the cooperation identification with the determined size is adopted, the robustness, the precision and the calculation speed of
visual positioning are all improved, and the observation updating frequency is increased; and the multi-sensor combined solution of IMU prediction, UWB
distance measurement and visual image observation is adopted, so that the positioning precision among multiple robots is further improved, and the relative configuration of the
system can be kept without relying on GPS information. The
ring network topology is adopted for formation
estimation, so that the
system can still operate under the condition of partial observation failure, and has certain redundancy.