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We present a novel tightly-coupled LiDAR-inertial odometry and mapping scheme for both solid-state and mechanical LiDARs. As frontend, a feature-based lightweight LiDAR odometry provides fast motion estimates for adaptive keyframe…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Kailai Li , Meng Li , Uwe D. Hanebeck

We present COIN-LIO, a LiDAR Inertial Odometry pipeline that tightly couples information from LiDAR intensity with geometry-based point cloud registration. The focus of our work is to improve the robustness of LiDAR-inertial odometry in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Patrick Pfreundschuh , Helen Oleynikova , Cesar Cadena , Roland Siegwart , Olov Andersson

LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO) plays a vital role in achieving accurate localization and mapping, especially in complex environments. However, the presence of LiDAR feature degeneracy poses a major challenge to reliable state estimation. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Guodong Yao , Hao Wang , Qing Chang

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR)-inertial odometry (LIO) enables accurate localization and mapping for autonomous navigation in various scenes. However, its performance remains sensitive to variations in spatial scale, which refers to…

Autonomous robotic systems heavily rely on environment knowledge to safely navigate. For search & rescue, a flying robot requires robust real-time perception, enabled by complementary sensors. IMU data constrains acceleration and rotation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

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

This letter presents an accurate and robust Lidar Inertial Odometry framework. We fuse LiDAR scans with IMU data using a tightly-coupled iterative error state Kalman filter for robust and fast localization. To achieve robust correspondence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Xingyu Ji , Shenghai Yuan , Pengyu Yin , Lihua Xie

In this letter, we propose a semantics-enhanced solid-state-LiDAR-inertial odometry (SE-LIO) in tree-rich environments. Multiple LiDAR frames are first merged and compensated with the inertial navigation system (INS) to increase the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Tisheng Zhang , Linfu Wei , Hailiang Tang , Liqiang Wang , Man Yuan , Xiaoji Niu

Local geometric information, i.e. normal and distribution of points, is crucial for LiDAR-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) because it provides constraints for data association, which further determines the direction of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Kai Huang , Junqiao Zhao , Zhongyang Zhu , Chen Ye , Tiantian Feng

LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) is widely used for accurate state estimation and mapping which is an essential requirement for autonomous robots. Conventional LIO methods typically rely on formulating constraints from the geometric structure…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Nikhil Khedekar , Kostas Alexis

LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO) is an active research area, as it enables accurate real-time state estimation in GPS-denied environments. Recent advances in map data structures and spatial indexing have significantly improved the efficiency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Seungwon Choi , Dong-Gyu Park , Seo-Yeon Hwang , Tae-Wan Kim

This paper addresses the challenge of Lidar-Inertial Odometry (LIO) in dynamic environments, where conventional methods often fail due to their static-world assumptions. Traditional LIO algorithms perform poorly when dynamic objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chen Zhiqiang , Le Gentil Cedric , Lin Fuling , Lu Minghao , Qiao Qiyuan , Xu Bowen , Qi Yuhua , Lu Peng

Uncertainty in LiDAR measurements, stemming from factors such as range sensing, is crucial for LIO (LiDAR-Inertial Odometry) systems as it affects the accurate weighting in the loss function. While recent LIO systems address uncertainty…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Kai Huang , Junqiao Zhao , Jiaye Lin , Zhongyang Zhu , Shuangfu Song , Chen Ye , Tiantian Feng

Real-time LiDAR-visual-inertial odometry and mapping is crucial for navigation and planning tasks in intelligent transportation systems. This study presents a pose-only bundle adjustment (PA) LiDAR-visual-inertial odometry (LVIO), named…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Hailiang Tang , Tisheng Zhang , Liqiang Wang , Xin Ding , Man Yuan , Xiaoji Niu

Robust and accurate navigation is critical for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) especially for those with stringent Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) constraints. However, most state-of-the-art (SOTA) LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) systems still…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jinwen Zhu , Xudong Zhao , Fangcheng Zhu , Jun Hu , Shi Jin , Yinian Mao , Guoquan Huang

This paper introduces 2Fast-2Lamaa, a lidar-inertial state estimation framework for odometry, mapping, and localization. Its first key component is the optimization-based undistortion of lidar scans, which uses continuous IMU preintegration…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Cedric Le Gentil , Raphael Falque , Daniil Lisus , Timothy D. Barfoot

LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) demonstrates outstanding accuracy and stability in general low-speed and smooth motion scenarios. However, in high-speed and intense motion scenarios, such as sharp turns, two primary challenges arise: firstly,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Tianxiang Zhang , Xuanxuan Zhang , Zongbo Liao , Xin Xia , You Li

This paper presents Direct LiDAR-Inertial Odometry and Mapping (DLIOM), a robust SLAM algorithm with an explicit focus on computational efficiency, operational reliability, and real-world efficacy. DLIOM contains several key algorithmic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Kenny Chen , Ryan Nemiroff , Brett T. Lopez

To deal with the degeneration caused by the incomplete constraints of single sensor, multi-sensor fusion strategies especially in LiDAR-vision-inertial fusion area have attracted much interest from both the industry and the research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Bingqi Shen , Yuyin Chen , Fuzhang Han , Shuwei Dai , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

In this paper, a LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO) method that eliminates the influence of moving objects in dynamic driving scenarios is proposed. This method constructs binarized labels for 3D points of current sweep, and utilizes the label…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Zikang Yuan , Xiaoxiang Wang , Jingying Wu , Junda Cheng , Xin Yang