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LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) is typically implemented using an optimization-based approach, with the factor graph often being employed due to its capability to seamlessly integrate residuals from both LiDAR and IMU measurements.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Naoki Akai , Takumi Nakao

Implementing dynamic locomotion behaviors on legged robots requires a high-quality state estimation module. Especially when the motion includes flight phases, state-of-the-art approaches fail to produce reliable estimation of the robot…

Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) is a widely used computer vision method that determines an agent's movement through a camera and an IMU sensor. This paper presents an efficient and accurate VIO pipeline optimized for applications on micro-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Jonas Kühne , Christian Vogt , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) has demonstrated remarkable success due to its low-cost and complementary sensors. However, existing VIO methods lack the generalization ability to adjust to different environments and sensor attributes. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Youqi Pan , Wugen Zhou , Yingdian Cao , Hongbin Zha

This paper presents an extension to visual inertial odometry (VIO) by introducing tightly-coupled fusion of magnetometer measurements. A sliding window of keyframes is optimized by minimizing re-projection errors, relative inertial errors,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Bharat Joshi , Ioannis Rekleitis

Accurate and robust localization is a fundamental need for mobile agents. Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) algorithms exploit the information from camera and inertial sensors to estimate position and translation. Recent deep learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Zheming Tu , Changhao Chen , Xianfei Pan , Ruochen Liu , Jiarui Cui , Jun Mao

Due to the advantages of high computational efficiency and small memory requirements, filter-based visual inertial odometry (VIO) has a good application prospect in miniaturized and payload-constrained embedded systems. However, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Xueyu Du , Lilian Zhang , Chengjun Ji , Xinchan Luo , Huaiyi Zhang , Maosong Wang , Wenqi Wu , Jun Mao

This paper proposes a equivariant filtering (EqF) framework for the inertial-integrated state estimation problem. As the kinematic system of the inertial-integrated navigation can be naturally modeling on the matrix Lie group $SE_2(3)$, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yarong Luo , Chi Guo , Jingnan Liu

Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) are a key technology for autonomous vehicles applications. Recent advances in estimation and filter design for the INS problem have exploited geometry and symmetry to overcome limitations of the classical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Alessandro Fornasier , Yonhon Ng , Robert Mahony , Stephan Weiss

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…

Respecting the geometry of the underlying system and exploiting its symmetry have been driving concepts in deriving modern geometric filters for inertial navigation systems (INSs). Despite their success, the explicit treatment of inertial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Alessandro Fornasier

It is known that invariance and equivariance properties for systems on Lie groups can be exploited in the design of high performance and robust observers and filters for real-world robotic systems. This paper proposes an analysis framework…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Robert Mahony , Jochen Trumpf

Combining cameras and inertial measurement units (IMUs) has been proven effective in motion tracking, as these two sensing modalities offer complementary characteristics that are suitable for fusion. While most works focus on global-shutter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Yonggen Ling , Linchao Bao , Zequn Jie , Fengming Zhu , Ziyang Li , Shanmin Tang , Yongsheng Liu , Wei Liu , Tong Zhang

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…

Visual-inertial-odometry has attracted extensive attention in the field of autonomous driving and robotics. The size of Field of View (FoV) plays an important role in Visual-Odometry (VO) and Visual-Inertial-Odometry (VIO), as a large FoV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Ze Wang , Kailun Yang , Hao Shi , Peng Li , Fei Gao , Kaiwei Wang

Combining Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) with visual and inertial sensors can give smooth pose estimation without drifting. The fusion system gradually degrades to Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) with the number of satellites…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Changwu Liu , Chen Jiang , Haowen Wang

Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) utilizes an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) to overcome the limitations of Visual Odometry (VO). However, the VIO for vehicles in large-scale outdoor environments still has some difficulties in estimating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Chang-Ryeol Lee , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Fast pose estimation (PE) is of vital importance for successful mission performance of agile autonomous robots. Global Positioning Systems such as GPS and GNSS have been typically used in fusion with Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) for…

Efficiency and robustness are the essential criteria for the visual-inertial odometry (VIO) system. To process massive visual data, the high cost on CPU resources and computation latency limits VIO's possibility in integration with other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yao He , Huai Yu , Wen Yang , Sebastian Scherer

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is an important technology for autonomous robots with power and payload constraints. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for VIO with stereo cameras which integrates and calibrates the velocity-control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Haolong Li , Joerg Stueckler