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Many smartphone applications use inertial measurement units (IMUs) to sense movement, but the use of these sensors for pedestrian localization can be challenging due to their noise characteristics. Recent data-driven inertial odometry…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Scott Sun , Dennis Melamed , Kris Kitani

Wearable inertial measurement units (IMUs) provide a cost-effective approach to assessing human movement in clinical and everyday environments. However, developing the associated classification models for robust assessment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Andreas Spilz , Heiko Oppel , Jochen Werner , Kathrin Stucke-Straub , Felix Capanni , Michael Munz

Inertial navigation systems for pedestrians are infrastructure-less and can achieve sub-meter accuracy in the short/medium period. However, when low-cost inertial measurement units (IMU) are employed for their implementation, they suffer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Francesco Montorsi , Fabrizio Pancaldi , Giorgio M. Vitetta

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 odometry is a critical component in a robotic navigation stack, and subsequent modules such as planning and control often rely on an estimate of the robot's motion. Sensor-based odometry approaches should be robust across sensor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Meher V. R. Malladi , Tiziano Guadagnino , Luca Lobefaro , Cyrill Stachniss

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

We present an approach for radar-inertial odometry which uses a continuous-time framework to fuse measurements from multiple automotive radars and an inertial measurement unit (IMU). Adverse weather conditions do not have a significant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Yin Zhi Ng , Benjamin Choi , Robby Tan , Lionel Heng

In this paper we propose a new analytical preintegration theory for graph-based sensor fusion with an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a camera (or other aiding sensors).Rather than using discrete sampling of the measurement dynamics as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Kevin Eckenhoff , Patrick Geneva , Guoquan Huang

Motivated by the goal of achieving robust, drift-free pose estimation in long-term autonomous navigation, in this work we propose a methodology to fuse global positional information with visual and inertial measurements in a tightly-coupled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Giovanni Cioffi , Davide Scaramuzza

In this paper we present an on-manifold sequence-to-sequence learning approach to motion estimation using visual and inertial sensors. It is to the best of our knowledge the first end-to-end trainable method for visual-inertial odometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Ronald Clark , Sen Wang , Hongkai Wen , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

Learning-based inertial odometry has achieved remarkable progress in pedestrian navigation. However, extending these methods to quadruped robots remains challenging due to their distinct and highly dynamic motion patterns. Models that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Dehan Shen , Changhao Chen

Applications of inertial measurement units are extremely diverse, and are expected to see a further increase in number due to current trends in robotics as well as recent advances in Micro Electromechanical sensors (MEMS). The traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-16 William T. Conlin

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

Nowadays, more and more sensors are equipped on robots to increase robustness and autonomous ability. We have seen various sensor suites equipped on different platforms, such as stereo cameras on ground vehicles, a monocular camera with an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Tong Qin , Jie Pan , Shaozu Cao , Shaojie Shen

In this paper, we argue that modern pre-integration methods for inertial measurement units (IMUs) are accurate enough to ignore the drift for short time intervals. This allows us to consider a simplified camera model, which in turn admits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Marcus Valtonen Örnhag , Patrik Persson , Mårten Wadenbäck , Kalle Åström , Anders Heyden

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

This paper proposes a novel data-driven approach for inertial navigation, which learns to estimate trajectories of natural human motions just from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) in every smartphone. The key observation is that human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Hang Yan , Qi Shan , Yasutaka Furukawa

To improve the accuracy and robustness of the inertial navigation systems (INS) for wheeled robots without adding additional component cost, we propose Wheel-INS, a complete dead reckoning solution based on a wheel-mounted…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Xiaoji Niu , Yibin Wu , Jian Kuang

Wearable sensors such as Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) are often used to assess the performance of human exercise. Common approaches use handcrafted features based on domain expertise or automatically extracted features using time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Ashish Singh , Antonio Bevilacqua , Timilehin B. Aderinola , Thach Le Nguyen , Darragh Whelan , Martin O'Reilly , Brian Caulfield , Georgiana Ifrim

The use of a wide range of computer vision solutions, and more recently high-end Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) have become increasingly popular for assessing human physical activity in clinical and research settings. Nevertheless, to…