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Accurate and reliable estimation of biases of low-cost Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) is a key factor to maintain the resilience of Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO), particularly when visual tracking fails in challenging areas. In such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Yang Yi , Kunqing Wang , Jinpu Zhang , Zhen Tan , Xiangke Wang , Hui Shen , Dewen Hu

Employing an inertial measurement unit (IMU) as an additional sensor can dramatically improve both reliability and accuracy of visual/Lidar odometry (VO/LO). Different IMU integration models are introduced using different assumptions on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-03 John Henawy , Zhengguo Li , Wei Yun Yau , Gerald Seet , Kong Wah Wan

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

State estimation is a critical foundational module in robotics applications, where robustness and performance are paramount. Although in recent years, many works have been focusing on improving one of the most widely adopted state…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Luqi Wang , Yang Xu , Shaojie Shen

In recent years there have been excellent results in Visual-Inertial Odometry techniques, which aim to compute the incremental motion of the sensor with high accuracy and robustness. However these approaches lack the capability to close…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Raul Mur-Artal , Juan D. Tardos

LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) is widely used for accurate state estimation and mapping which is an essential requirement for autonomous robots. Conventional LIO methods typically rely on formulating constraints from the geometric structure…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Nikhil Khedekar , Kostas Alexis

Monocular visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is a critical problem in robotics and autonomous driving. Traditional methods solve this problem based on filtering or optimization. While being fully interpretable, they rely on manual interference…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Zexi Chen , Haozhe Du , Xuecheng Xu , Rong Xiong , Yiyi Liao , Yue Wang

In this paper, we present iDVO (inertia-embedded deep visual odometry), a self-supervised learning based monocular visual odometry (VO) for road vehicles. When modelling the geometric consistency within adjacent frames, most deep VO methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Chengze Wang , Yuan Yuan , Qi Wang

Visual-Inertial (VI) sensors are popular in robotics, self-driving vehicles, and augmented and virtual reality applications. In order to use them for any computer vision or state-estimation task, a good calibration is essential. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Christopher L. Choi , Binbin Xu , Stefan Leutenegger

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

This paper tackles the problem of estimating the relative position, orientation, and velocity between a UAV and a planar platform undergoing arbitrary 3D motion during approach and landing. The estimation relies on measurements from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Tarek Bouazza , Alessandro Melis , Soulaimane Berkane , Robert Mahony , Tarek Hamel

Autonomous Mobile Robots operating in indoor industrial environments require a localization system that is reliable and robust. While Visual Odometry (VO) can offer a reasonable estimation of the robot's state, traditional VO methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Abdelhak Bougouffa , Emmanuel Seignez , Samir Bouaziz , Florian Gardes

This paper proposes FAST-LIVO2: a fast, direct LiDAR-inertial-visual odometry framework to achieve accurate and robust state estimation in SLAM tasks and provide great potential in real-time, onboard robotic applications. FAST-LIVO2 fuses…

Vision algorithms can be executed directly on the image sensor when implemented on the next-generation sensors known as focal-plane sensor-processor arrays (FPSP)s, where every pixel has a processor. FPSPs greatly improve latency, reducing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Matthew Lisondra , Junseo Kim , Glenn Takashi Shimoda , Kourosh Zareinia , Sajad Saeedi

Robust and accurate localization for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is an essential capability to achieve autonomous, long-range flights. Current methods either rely heavily on GNSS, face limitations in visual-based localization due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Yao He , Ivan Cisneros , Nikhil Keetha , Jay Patrikar , Zelin Ye , Ian Higgins , Yaoyu Hu , Parv Kapoor , Sebastian Scherer

High-speed ground robots moving on unstructured terrains generate intense high-frequency vibrations, leading to LiDAR scan distortions in Lidar-inertial odometry (LIO). Accurate and efficient undistortion is extremely challenging due to (1)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yan Dong , Enci Xu , Shaoqiang Qiu , Wenxuan Li , Yang Liu , Bin Han

Odometry in adverse weather conditions, such as fog, rain, and snow, presents significant challenges, as traditional vision and LiDAR-based methods often suffer from degraded performance. Radar-Inertial Odometry (RIO) has emerged as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shuocheng Yang , Yueming Cao , Shengbo Eben Li , Jianqiang Wang , Shaobing Xu

This paper addresses the problem of estimating the relative pose (position and orientation) and velocity of a vehicle with respect to a moving target, where both are equipped with Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), assuming the availability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Alessandro Melis , Tarek Bouazza , Soulaimane Berkane , Tarek Hamel

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

Monocular cameras coupled with inertial measurements generally give high performance visual inertial odometry. However, drift can be significant with long trajectories, especially when the environment is visually challenging. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Yanjun Cao , Giovanni Beltrame