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An inertial navigation system (INS) utilizes three orthogonal accelerometers and gyroscopes to determine platform position, velocity, and orientation. There are countless applications for INS, including robotics, autonomous platforms, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Zeev Yampolsky , Yair Stolero , Nitzan Pri-Hadash , Dan Solodar , Shira Massas , Itai Savin , Itzik Klein

In this paper, we argue that modern pre-integration methods for inertial measurement units (IMUs) are accurate enough to ignore the drift for short time intervals. This allows us to consider a simplified camera model, which in turn admits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Marcus Valtonen Örnhag , Patrik Persson , Mårten Wadenbäck , Kalle Åström , Anders Heyden

The inertial measurement unit (IMU) preintegration approach nowadays is widely used in various robotic applications. In this article, we revisit the preintegration theory and propose a novel interpretation to understand it from a nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-11 Bowen Yi , Ian R. Manchester

This paper proposes a novel inertial-aided localization approach by fusing information from multiple inertial measurement units (IMUs) and exteroceptive sensors. IMU is a low-cost motion sensor which provides measurements on angular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Ming Zhang , Yiming Chen , Xiangyu Xu , Mingyang Li

The initial alignment provides an accurate attitude for SINS (strapdown inertial navigation system). By further estimating the IMU's bias and misalignment angle, the recursive Bayesian filter is accurate. However, the prior heading error…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Hanwen Zhou , Xiufen Ye

A long-term accurate and robust localization system is essential for mobile robots to operate efficiently outdoors. Recent studies have shown the significant advantages of the wheel-mounted inertial measurement unit (Wheel-IMU)-based dead…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yibin Wu , Jian Kuang , Xiaoji Niu , Cyrill Stachniss , Lasse Klingbeil , Heiner Kuhlmann

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

Applications of inertial measurement units are extremely diverse, and are expected to see a further increase in number due to current trends in robotics as well as recent advances in Micro Electromechanical sensors (MEMS). The traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-16 William T. Conlin

A global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is a sensor that can acquire 3D position and velocity in an earth-fixed coordinate system and is widely used for outdoor position estimation of robots and vehicles. Various GNSS/inertial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Taro Suzuki

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

Inertial navigation systems (INS) are widely used in almost any operational environment, including aviation, marine, and land vehicles. Inertial measurements from accelerometers and gyroscopes allow the INS to estimate position, velocity,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Daniel Engelsman , Yair Stolero , Itzik Klein

Aligning a robot's trajectory or map to the inertial frame is a critical capability that is often difficult to do accurately even though inertial measurement units (IMUs) can observe absolute roll and pitch with respect to gravity.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Ryan Nemiroff , Kenny Chen , Brett T. Lopez

To fuse information from inertial measurement units (IMU) with other sensors one needs an accurate model for IMU error propagation in terms of position, velocity and orientation, a triplet we call extended pose. In this paper we leverage a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Axel Barrau , Silvere Bonnabel

This paper proposes a low-cost six Degree-of-Freedom (6-DOF) navigation system for small aerial robots based on the integration of Global Position System (GPS) receiver with sensors of inertional Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS). In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Guiqiu Liao , Jiankang Zhao , Chao Cui , Haihui Long , Jianbin Zhu , Achraf Djerida

Sensor fusion of a MEMS IMU with a magnetometer is a popular system design, because such 9-DoF (degrees of freedom) systems are capable of achieving drift-free 3D orientation tracking. However, these systems are often vulnerable to ambient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-14 Jacky C. K. Chow

This letter proposes a new approach for Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) preintegration, a fundamental building block that can be leveraged in different optimization-based Inertial Navigation System (INS) localization solutions. Inspired by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Giulio Delama , Alessandro Fornasier , Robert Mahony , Stephan Weiss

State-of-the-art robotic perception systems have achieved sufficiently good performance using Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), cameras, and nonlinear optimization techniques, that they are now being deployed as technologies. However, many…

Motivated by the goal of achieving robust, drift-free pose estimation in long-term autonomous navigation, in this work we propose a methodology to fuse global positional information with visual and inertial measurements in a tightly-coupled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Giovanni Cioffi , Davide Scaramuzza

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

Precise positioning and navigation information has been increasingly important with the development of the consumer electronics market. Due to some deficits of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), such as susceptible to interferences,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Qijia Zhao , Shaolin Lü , Jianan Lou , Rong Zhang