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We present a comprehensive framework for fusing measurements from multiple and generally placed accelerometers and gyroscopes to perform inertial navigation. Using the angular acceleration provided by the accelerometer array, we show that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-31 Håkan Carlsson , Isaac Skog , Gustaf Hendeby , Joakim Jaldén

In this paper, the well-known multiplicative extended Kalman filter (MEKF) is re-investigated for attitude estimation using vector observations. From the Lie group theory, it is shown that the attitude estimation model is group affine and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Lubin Chang

Understanding human motion is of critical importance for health monitoring and control of assistive robots, yet many human kinematic variables cannot be directly or accurately measured by wearable sensors. In recent years, invariant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zenan Zhu , Seyed Mostafa Rezayat Sorkhabadi , Yan Gu , Wenlong Zhang

The defects of the traditional strapdown inertial navigation algorithms become well acknowledged and the corresponding enhanced algorithms have been quite recently proposed trying to mitigate both theoretical and algorithmic defects. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Hongyan Jiang , Maoran Zhu , Yuanxin Wu

We study the mathematical properties of the Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (IEKF) when iterating on the measurement update step, following the principles of the well-known Iterated Extended Kalman Filter. This iterative variant of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Sven Goffin , Axel Barrau , Silvère Bonnabel , Olivier Brüls , Pierre Sacré

The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is an efficient algorithm for many data assimilation problems. In certain circumstances, however, divergence of the EnKF might be spotted. In previous studies, the authors proposed an…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Xiaodong Luo , Ibrahim Hoteit

Maintaining consistent uncertainty estimates in localization systems is crucial as the perceived uncertainty commonly affects high-level system components, such as control or decision processes. A method for constructing an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Chuan Huang , Gustaf Hendeby , Isaac Skog

Radar-Inertial Odometry (RIO) based on the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) relies on accurate extrinsic calibration between the radar and the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and is sensitive to disturbances, as large linearization errors can…

Counter-adversarial system design problems have lately motivated the development of inverse Bayesian filters. For example, inverse Kalman filter (I-KF) has been recently formulated to estimate the adversary's Kalman-filter-tracked estimates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Himali Singh , Arpan Chattopadhyay , Kumar Vijay Mishra

In this work, we explore the recent advances in equivariant filtering for inertial navigation systems to improve state estimation for uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs). Traditional state-of-the-art estimation methods, e.g., the multiplicative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Martin Scheiber , Alessandro Fornasier , Christian Brommer , Stephan Weiss

Accurate estimation and prediction of trajectory is essential for the capture of any high speed target. In this paper, an extended Kalman filter (EKF) is used to track the target in the first loop of the trajectory to collect data points…

Odometry estimation is crucial for every autonomous system requiring navigation in an unknown environment. In modern mobile robots, 3D LiDAR-inertial systems are often used for this task. By fusing LiDAR scans and IMU measurements, these…

This paper considers the use of two position receivers and an inertial measurement unit (IMU) to estimate the position, velocity, and attitude of a rigid body, collectively called extended pose. The measurement model consisting of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Natalia Pavlasek , Alex Walsh , James Richard Forbes

Navigation plays a vital role in the ability of autonomous surface and underwater platforms to complete their tasks. Most navigation systems apply a fusion between inertial sensors and other external sensors, such as global navigation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Yaakov Libero , Itzik Klein

This letter proposes a reactive navigation strategy for recovering the altitude, translational velocity and orientation of Micro Aerial Vehicles. The main contribution lies in the direct and tight fusion of Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Shangkun Zhong , Pakpong Chirarattananon

While LiDAR and cameras are becoming ubiquitous for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) but can be ineffective in challenging environments, 4D millimeter-wave (MMW) radars that can provide robust 3D ranging and Doppler velocity measurements are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Jinwen Zhu , Jun Hu , Xudong Zhao , Xiaoming Lang , Yinian Mao , Guoquan Huang

The kinematics of many systems encountered in robotics, mechatronics, and avionics are naturally posed on homogeneous spaces; that is, their state lies in a smooth manifold equipped with a transitive Lie group symmetry. This paper proposes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Pieter van Goor , Tarek Hamel , Robert Mahony

This paper presents an integrated navigation algorithm based on trident quaternions, an extension of dual quaternions. The proposed methodology provides an efficient approach for achieving precise and robust navigation by leveraging the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Sebastian Incicco , Juan Ignacio Giribet , Leonardo Colombo

Recent research in inverse cognition with cognitive radar has led to the development of inverse stochastic filters that are employed by the target to infer the information the cognitive radar may have learned. Prior works addressed this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Himali Singh , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Arpan Chattopadhyay

The Kalman filter is a fundamental tool for state estimation in dynamical systems. While originally developed for linear Gaussian settings, it has been extended to nonlinear problems through approaches such as the extended and unscented…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Yuan Wu , Sicheng He