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Magnetic-field simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) using consumer-grade inertial and magnetometer sensors offers a scalable, cost-effective solution for indoor localization. However, the rapid error accumulation in the inertial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Isaac Skog , Manon Kok , Gustaf Hendeby , Chuan Huang , Thomas Edridge

The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as driverless cars, have a growing demand for high-precision positioning and navigation. Nowadays, LiDAR inertial odometry becomes increasingly prevalent in robotics and autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Chengwei Zhao , Kun Hu , Jie Xu , Lijun Zhao , Baiwen Han , Kaidi Wu , Maoshan Tian , Shenghai Yuan

We present an approach to enhance wheeled planetary rover dead-reckoning localization performance by leveraging the use of zero-type constraint equations in the navigation filter. Without external aiding, inertial navigation solutions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Cagri Kilic , Jason N. Gross , Nicholas Ohi , Ryan Watson , Jared Strader , Thomas Swiger , Scott Harper , Yu Gu

This paper proposes a novel inertial-aided localization approach by fusing information from multiple inertial measurement units (IMUs) and exteroceptive sensors. IMU is a low-cost motion sensor which provides measurements on angular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Ming Zhang , Yiming Chen , Xiangyu Xu , Mingyang Li

Accurate robot odometry is essential for autonomous navigation. While numerous techniques have been developed based on various sensor suites, odometry estimation using only radar and IMU remains an underexplored area. Radar proves…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Lucia Coto Elena , Fernando Caballero , Luis Merino

Radar ensures robust sensing capabilities in adverse weather conditions, yet challenges remain due to its high inherent noise level. Existing radar odometry has overcome these challenges with strategies such as filtering spurious points,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Wooseong Yang , Hyesu Jang , Ayoung Kim

Indoor localization systems often fuse inertial odometry with map information via hand-defined methods to reduce odometry drift, but such methods are sensitive to noise and struggle to generalize across odometry sources. To address the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Dennis Melamed , Karnik Ram , Vivek Roy , Kris Kitani

This work demonstrates an airflow inertial based odometry system with multi-sensor data fusion, including thermal anemometer, IMU, ESC, and barometer. This goal is challenging because low-cost IMUs and barometers have significant bias, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Ze Wang , Jingang Qu , Zhenyu Gao , Pascal Morin

Odometer has been proven to significantly improve the accuracy of the Global Navigation Satellite System / Inertial Navigation System (GNSS/INS) integrated vehicle navigation in GNSS-challenged environments. However, the odometer is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Hailiang Tang , Xiaoji Niu , Tisheng Zhang , You Li , Jingnan Liu

This work presents a centralized multi-IMU filter framework with online intrinsic and extrinsic calibration for unsynchronized inertial measurement units that is robust against changes in calibration parameters. The novel EKF-based method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Jacob Hartzer , Srikanth Saripalli

Spatially inhomogeneous magnetic fields offer a valuable, non-visual information source for positioning. Among systems leveraging this, magnetic field-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems are particularly attractive.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Chuan Huang , Gustaf Hendeby , Isaac Skog

Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) is one of the most established state estimation methods for mobile platforms. However, when visual tracking fails, VIO algorithms quickly diverge due to rapid error accumulation during inertial data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Russell Buchanan , Varun Agrawal , Marco Camurri , Frank Dellaert , Maurice Fallon

Inertial odometry (IO) directly estimates the position of a carrier from inertial sensor measurements and serves as a core technology for the widespread deployment of consumer grade localization systems. While existing IO methods can…

This paper addresses accurate pose estimation (position, velocity, and orientation) for a rigid body using a combination of generic inertial-frame and/or body-frame measurements along with an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). By embedding…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Sifeddine Benahmed , Soulaimane Berkane , Tarek Hamel

This paper deals with the error analysis of a novel navigation algorithm that uses as input the sequence of images acquired from a moving camera and a Digital Terrain (or Elevation) Map (DTM/DEM). More specifically, it has been shown that…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Oleg Kupervasser , Alexander Rubinstein

This paper concerns the estimation problem of attitude, position, and linear velocity of a rigid-body autonomously navigating with six degrees of freedom (6 DoF). The navigation dynamics are highly nonlinear and are modeled on the matrix…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 Hashim A. Hashim , Mohammed Abouheaf , Mohammad A. Abido

This paper deals with the problem of full state estimation for vehicles navigating in a three dimensional space. We assume that the vehicle is equipped with an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) providing body-frame measurements of the angular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Soulaimane Berkane , Abdelhamid Tayebi , Simone de Marco

We propose a framework for tightly-coupled lidar inertial odometry via smoothing and mapping, LIO-SAM, that achieves highly accurate, real-time mobile robot trajectory estimation and map-building. LIO-SAM formulates lidar-inertial odometry…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Tixiao Shan , Brendan Englot , Drew Meyers , Wei Wang , Carlo Ratti , Daniela Rus

Visual-Inertial Odometry(VIO), which is critical to mobile robot navigation, uses cameras with a large number of pixels. Capturing and processing camera images requires significant resources. This work presents a minimalist approach to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Francesco Pasti , Jeremy Klotz , Nicola Bellotto , Shree K. Nayar

We present a method to improve the accuracy of a zero-velocity-aided inertial navigation system (INS) by replacing the standard zero-velocity detector with a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network. While existing threshold-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Brandon Wagstaff , Jonathan Kelly