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In this paper, we propose a radar odometry structure that directly utilizes radar velocity measurements for dead reckoning while maintaining its ability to update estimations within the Kalman filter framework. Specifically, we employ the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Hoang Viet Do , Yong Hun Kim , Joo Han Lee , Min Ho Lee , Jin Woo Song

Accurate robot odometry is essential for autonomous navigation. While numerous techniques have been developed based on various sensor suites, odometry estimation using only radar and IMU remains an underexplored area. Radar proves…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Lucia Coto Elena , Fernando Caballero , Luis Merino

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 presents a novel weakly supervised semantic segmentation method for radar segmentation, where the existing LiDAR semantic segmentation models are employed to generate semantic labels, which then serve as supervision signals for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Siru Li , Ziyang Hong , Yushuai Chen , Liang Hu , Jiahu Qin

This work explores Doppler information from a millimetre-Wave (mm-W) Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave (FMCW) scanning radar to make odometry estimation more robust and accurate. Firstly, doppler information is added to the scan masking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Fraser Rennie , David Williams , Paul Newman , Daniele De Martini

This paper presents a radar odometry method that combines probabilistic trajectory estimation and deep learned features without needing groundtruth pose information. The feature network is trained unsupervised, using only the on-board radar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Keenan Burnett , David J. Yoon , Angela P. Schoellig , Timothy D. Barfoot

We propose a real-time dynamic LiDAR odometry pipeline for mobile robots in Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) scenarios. Existing approaches to dynamic object detection often rely on pretrained learned networks or computationally expensive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Jonathan Lichtenfeld , Kevin Daun , Oskar von Stryk

Reliable offroad autonomy requires low-latency, high-accuracy state estimates of pose as well as velocity, which remain viable throughout environments with sub-optimal operating conditions for the utilized perception modalities. As state…

This paper presents a method that leverages vehicle motion constraints to refine data associations in a point-based radar odometry system. By using the strong prior on how a non-holonomic robot is constrained to move smoothly through its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Roberto Aldera , Matthew Gadd , Daniele De Martini , Paul Newman

Reliable localization in prior maps is essential for autonomous navigation, particularly under adverse weather, where optical sensors may fail. We present CFEAR-TR, a teach-and-repeat localization pipeline using a single spinning radar,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Maximilian Hilger , Daniel Adolfsson , Ralf Becker , Henrik Andreasson , Achim J. Lilienthal

The main contribution of this paper is a high frequency, low-complexity, on-board visual-inertial odometry system for quadrotor micro air vehicles. The system consists of an extended Kalman filter (EKF) based state estimation algorithm that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Dinuka Abeywardena , Shoudong Huang , Ben Barnes , Gamini Dissanayake , Sarath Kodagoda

LiDAR odometry and localization are two widely used and fundamental applications in robotic and autonomous driving systems. Although state-of-the-art (SOTA) systems achieve high accuracy on clean point clouds, their robustness to corrupted…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Bo Yang , Tri Minh Triet Pham , Jinqiu Yang

In unstructured outdoor environments, robotics requires accurate and efficient odometry with low computational time. Existing low-bias LiDAR odometry methods are often computationally expensive. To address this problem, we present a…

Radar has become an essential sensor for autonomous navigation, especially in challenging environments where camera and LiDAR sensors fail. 4D single-chip millimeter-wave radar systems, in particular, have drawn increasing attention thanks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jingqi Jiang , Shida Xu , Kaicheng Zhang , Jiyuan Wei , Jingyang Wang , Sen Wang

This paper presents a fast lidar-inertial odometry (LIO) that is robust to aggressive motion. To achieve robust tracking in aggressive motion scenes, we exploit the continuous scanning property of lidar to adaptively divide the full scan…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Jun Liu , Yunzhou Zhang , Xiaoyu Zhao , Zhengnan He

LiDAR-based localization is valuable for applications like mining surveys and underground facility maintenance. However, existing methods can struggle when dealing with uninformative geometric structures in challenging scenarios. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zhiqiang Chen , Hongbo Chen , Yuhua Qi , Shipeng Zhong , Dapeng Feng , Wu Jin , Weisong Wen , Ming Liu

In this paper, we propose a method of targetless and automatic Camera-LiDAR calibration. Our approach is an extension of hand-eye calibration framework to 2D-3D calibration. By using the sensor fusion odometry method, the scaled camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Ryoichi Ishikawa , Takeshi Oishi , Katsushi Ikeuchi

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

This paper presents an approach to radar odometry on $SE(3)$ which utilizes a constant acceleration motion prior. The motion prior is integrated into a sliding window optimization scheme. We use the Magnus expansion to accurately integrate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Kyle Retan , Frasher Loshaj , Michael Heizmann

In this work, we demonstrate continuous-time radar-inertial and lidar-inertial odometry using a Gaussian process motion prior. Using a sparse prior, we demonstrate improved computational complexity during preintegration and interpolation.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Keenan Burnett , Angela P. Schoellig , Timothy D. Barfoot