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Recently, data-driven inertial navigation approaches have demonstrated their capability of using well-trained neural networks to obtain accurate position estimates from inertial measurement units (IMU) measurements. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Bingbing Rao , Ehsan Kazemi , Yifan Ding , Devu M Shila , Frank M. Tucker , Liqiang Wang

This paper proposes a unified mathematical framework for inertial measurement unit (IMU) preintegration in inertial-aided navigation system in different frames under different motion condition. The navigation state is precisely discretized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Yarong Luo , Yang Liu , Chi Guo , Jingnan Liu

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

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) 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

An algorithm for pose and motion estimation using corresponding features in images and a digital terrain map is proposed. Using a Digital Terrain (or Digital Elevation) Map (DTM/DEM) as a global reference enables recovering the absolute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-11 Oleg Kupervasser , Vladimir Voronov

Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) are interceptive modalities that provide ego-motion measurements independent of the environmental factors. They are widely adopted in various autonomous systems. Motivated by the limitations in processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Rooholla Khorrambakht , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Hamed Damirchi , Zhenghua Chen , Zhengguo Li

Navigation in Global Positioning Systems (GPS)-denied environments requires robust estimators reliant on fusion of inertial sensors able to estimate rigid-body's orientation, position, and linear velocity. Ultra-wideband (UWB) and Inertial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-17 Hashim A. Hashim , Abdelrahman E. E. Eltoukhy , Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis , Mohammed I. Abouheaf

Inertial-based navigation refers to the navigation methods or systems that have inertial information or sensors as the core part and integrate a spectrum of other kinds of sensors for enhanced performance. Through a series of papers, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Maoran Zhu , Yuanxin Wu

The task of indoor positioning is fundamental to several applications, including navigation, healthcare, location-based services, and security. An emerging field is inertial navigation for pedestrians, which relies only on inertial sensors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Itzik Klein

This paper presents a deep learning approach to aid dead-reckoning (DR) navigation using a limited sensor suite. A Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) was developed to predict the relative horizontal velocities of an Autonomous Underwater…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Ivar Bjørgo Saksvik , Alex Alcocer , Vahid Hassani

Inertial measurement units (IMUs) are fundamental sensing components in multi-source integrated navigation systems, and their performance directly determines the accuracy and reliability of solutions. However, the precision of low-cost IMUs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Jiarui Lv , Feng Zhu , Xiaohong Zhang

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

Inertial localisation is an important technique as it enables ego-motion estimation in conditions where external observers are unavailable. However, low-cost inertial sensors are inherently corrupted by bias and noise, which lead to unbound…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-06 James Brotchie , Wenchao Li , Andrew D. Greentree , Allison Kealy

The miniaturization of inertial measurement units (IMUs) facilitates their widespread use in a growing number of application domains. Orientation estimation is a prerequisite for most further data processing steps in inertial motion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Daniel Laidig , Thomas Seel

In this article, a tutorial introduction to visual-inertial navigation(VIN) is presented. Visual and inertial perception are two complementary sensing modalities. Cameras and inertial measurement units (IMU) are the corresponding sensors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yangyang Ning

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

The paper presents a direct visual-inertial odometry system. In particular, a tightly coupled nonlinear optimization based method is proposed by integrating the recent advances in direct dense tracking and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Wenju Xu , Dongkyu Choi , Guanghui Wang

We present an unsupervised deep neural network approach to the fusion of RGB-D imagery with inertial measurements for absolute trajectory estimation. Our network, dubbed the Visual-Inertial-Odometry Learner (VIOLearner), learns to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 E. Jared Shamwell , Sarah Leung , William D. Nothwang

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