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Inertial odometry (IO) using strap-down inertial measurement units (IMUs) is critical in many robotic applications where precise orientation and position tracking are essential. Prior kinematic motion model-based IO methods often use a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Yuheng Qiu , Chen Wang , Can Xu , Yutian Chen , Xunfei Zhou , Youjie Xia , Sebastian Scherer

Neural networks are seeing rapid adoption in purely inertial odometry, where accelerometer and gyroscope measurements from commodity inertial measurement units (IMU) are used to regress displacements and associated uncertainties. They can…

Inertial measurement units (IMUs), which provide high-frequency linear acceleration and angular velocity measurements, serve as fundamental sensing modalities in robotic systems. Recent advances in deep neural networks have led to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jiwon Choi , Hogyun Kim , Geonmo Yang , Juhui Lee , Younggun Cho

Inertial navigation using low-cost MEMS sensors is plagued by rapid drift due to sensor noise and bias instability. While recent data-driven approaches have made significant strides, they often struggle with micro-drifts during stationarity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dapeng Feng , Yizhen Yin , Zhiqiang Chen , Yuhua Qi , Hongbo Chen

Inertial odometry is an attractive solution to the problem of state estimation for agile quadrotor flight. It is inexpensive, lightweight, and it is not affected by perceptual degradation. However, only relying on the integration of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Giovanni Cioffi , Leonard Bauersfeld , Elia Kaufmann , Davide Scaramuzza

This paper presents a convolutional neural network based foot motion tracking with only six-axis Inertial-Measurement-Unit (IMU) sensor data. The presented approach can adapt to various walking conditions by adopting differential and window…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Jien De Sui , Tian Sheuan Chang

Building a complete inertial navigation system using the limited quality data provided by current smartphones has been regarded challenging, if not impossible. This paper shows that by careful crafting and accounting for the weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Arno Solin , Santiago Cortes , Esa Rahtu , Juho Kannala

Inertial sensors are widely utilized in smartphones, drones, robots, and IoT devices, playing a crucial role in enabling ubiquitous and reliable localization. Inertial sensor-based positioning is essential in various applications, including…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Changhao Chen , Xianfei Pan

This paper presents a novel method for visual-inertial odometry. The method is based on an information fusion framework employing low-cost IMU sensors and the monocular camera in a standard smartphone. We formulate a sequential inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Arno Solin , Santiago Cortes , Esa Rahtu , Juho Kannala

Inertial sensors play a pivotal role in indoor localization, which in turn lays the foundation for pervasive personal applications. However, low-cost inertial sensors, as commonly found in smartphones, are plagued by bias and noise, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Changhao Chen , Xiaoxuan Lu , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

Data-driven based method for navigation and positioning has absorbed attention in recent years and it outperforms all its competitor methods in terms of accuracy and efficiency. This paper introduces a new architecture called IMUNet which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Behnam Zeinali , Hadi Zandizari , J. Morris Chang

Inertial Odometry (IO) enables real-time localization using only acceleration and angular velocity measurements from an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), making it a promising solution for localization in consumer-grade applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Shanshan Zhang , Liqin Wu , Wenying Cao , Siyue Wang , Tianshui Wen , Qi Zhang , Xuemin Hong , Ao Peng , Lingxiang Zheng , Yu Yang

Inertial odometry (IO) using only Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) offers a lightweight and cost-effective solution for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications, yet existing learning-based IO models often fail to generalize to UAVs due…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yuheng Qiu , Can Xu , Yutian Chen , Shibo Zhao , Junyi Geng , Sebastian Scherer

Accurate alignment of a fixed mobile device equipped with inertial sensors inside a moving vehicle is important for navigation, activity recognition, and other applications. Accurate estimation of the device mounting angle is required to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Maxim Freydin , Niv Sfaradi , Nimrod Segol , Areej Eweida , Barak Or

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

Low-cost inertial navigation sensors (INS) can be exploited for a reliable tracking solution for autonomous vehicles. However, position errors grow exponentially due to noises in the measurements. Several deep learning techniques have been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Uche Onyekpe , Vasile Palade , Stratis Kanarachos , Alicja Szkolnik

Stride length estimation using inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors is getting popular recently as one representative gait parameter for health care and sports training. The traditional estimation method requires some explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Jien-De Sui , Tian-Sheuan Chang

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

This paper proposes a real-time approach for long-term inertial navigation based only on an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) for self-localizing wheeled robots. The approach builds upon two components: 1) a robust detector that uses…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Martin Brossard , Axel Barrau , Silvere Bonnabel

This paper introduces a novel proprioceptive state estimator for legged robots based on a learned displacement measurement from IMU data. Recent research in pedestrian tracking has shown that motion can be inferred from inertial data using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Russell Buchanan , Marco Camurri , Frank Dellaert , Maurice Fallon