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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

Enabling autonomous robots to operate robustly in challenging environments is necessary in a future with increased autonomy. For many autonomous systems, estimation and odometry remains a single point of failure, from which it can often be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Morten Nissov , Nikhil Khedekar , Kostas Alexis

Radar odometry estimation has emerged as a critical technique in the field of autonomous navigation, providing robust and reliable motion estimation under various environmental conditions. Despite its potential, the complex nature of radar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Matteo Frosi , Mirko Usuelli , Matteo Matteucci

LiDAR odometry can achieve accurate vehicle pose estimation for short driving range or in small-scale environments, but for long driving range or in large-scale environments, the accuracy deteriorates as a result of cumulative estimation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Lizhou Liao , Chunyun Fu , Binbin Feng , Tian Su

The flexibility of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms in various environments has consistently been a significant challenge. To address the issue of LiDAR odometry drift in high-noise settings, integrating clustering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Mazeyu Ji , Wenbo Shi , Yujie Cui , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

Higher level functionality in autonomous driving depends strongly on a precise motion estimate of the vehicle. Powerful algorithms have been developed. However, their great majority focuses on either binocular imagery or pure LIDAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Johannes Graeter , Alexander Wilczynski , Martin Lauer

Recently, 4D millimetre-wave radar exhibits more stable perception ability than LiDAR and camera under adverse conditions (e.g. rain and fog). However, low-quality radar points hinder its application, especially the odometry task that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zhiheng Li , Yubo Cui , Ningyuan Huang , Chenglin Pang , Zheng Fang

LiDAR odometry is a fundamental task for various areas such as robotics, autonomous driving. This problem is difficult since it requires the systems to be highly robust running in noisy real-world data. Existing methods are mostly local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Zhichao Li , Naiyan Wang

Most autonomous vehicles rely on accurate and efficient localization, which is achieved by comparing live sensor data to a preexisting map, to navigate their environment. Balancing the accuracy of localization with computational efficiency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Katya M. Papais , Daniil Lisus , Cedric Le Gentil , David J. Yoon , Timothy D. Barfoot

LiDARs provide accurate geometric measurements, making them valuable for ego-motion estimation and reconstruction tasks. Although its success, managing an accurate and lightweight representation of the environment still poses challenges.…

LiDAR odometry (LO) describes the task of finding an alignment of subsequent LiDAR point clouds. This alignment can be used to estimate the motion of the platform where the LiDAR sensor is mounted on. Currently, on the well-known KITTI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Philipp Adis , Nicolas Horst , Mathias Wien

There has been significant progress made in the field of autonomous vehicles. Object detection and tracking are the primary tasks for any autonomous vehicle. The task of object detection in autonomous vehicles relies on a variety of sensors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Gaurav Raut , Advait Patole

Lidar-only odometry aims to estimate the trajectory of a mobile platform from a stream of lidar scans. Traditional scan-to map approaches register each scan against a single, evolving map, which propagates registration errors over time. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Aaron Kurda , Simon Steuernagel , Marcus Baum

LiDAR-to-OpenStreetMap (OSM) localization has gained increasing attention, as OSM provides lightweight global priors such as building footprints. These priors enhance global consistency for robot navigation, but OSM is often incomplete or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jianping Li , Kaisong Zhu , Zhongyuan Liu , Rui Jin , Xinhang Xu , Pengfei Wan , Lihua Xie

This paper proposes an efficient and probabilistic adaptive voxel mapping method for LiDAR odometry. The map is a collection of voxels; each contains one plane (or edge) feature that enables the probabilistic representation of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Chongjian Yuan , Wei xu , Xiyuan Liu , Xiaoping Hong , Fu Zhang

The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as driverless cars, have a growing demand for high-precision positioning and navigation. Nowadays, LiDAR inertial odometry becomes increasingly prevalent in robotics and autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Chengwei Zhao , Kun Hu , Jie Xu , Lijun Zhao , Baiwen Han , Kaidi Wu , Maoshan Tian , Shenghai Yuan

LiDAR-based SLAM is a core technology for autonomous vehicles and robots. One key contribution of this work to 3D LiDAR SLAM and localization is a fierce defense of view-based maps (pose graphs with time-stamped sensor readings) as the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 José Luis Blanco-Claraco

Field robotics in perceptually-challenging environments require fast and accurate state estimation, but modern LiDAR sensors quickly overwhelm current odometry algorithms. To this end, this paper presents a lightweight frontend LiDAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Kenny Chen , Brett T. Lopez , Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi , Ankur Mehta

LiDAR-based 3D object detection plays a crucial role in modern autonomous driving systems. LiDAR data often exhibit severe changes in properties across different observation ranges. In this paper, we explore cross-range adaptation for 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Ze Wang , Sihao Ding , Ying Li , Minming Zhao , Sohini Roychowdhury , Andreas Wallin , Guillermo Sapiro , Qiang Qiu

The problem of tracking self-motion as well as motion of objects in the scene using information from a camera is known as multi-body visual odometry and is a challenging task. This paper proposes a robust solution to achieve accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Jun Zhang , Mina Henein , Robert Mahony , Viorela Ila