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A simple approach to gyro and accelerometer bias estimation is proposed. It does not involve Kalman filtering or similar formal techniques. Instead, it is based on physical intuition and exploits a duality between gimbaled and strapdown…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-07-02 Vasiliy M. Tereshkov

This paper proposes to use a newly-derived transformed inertial navigation system (INS) mechanization to fuse INS with other complementary navigation systems. Through formulating the attitude, velocity and position as one group state of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Lubin Chang , Jingbo Di , Fangjun Qin

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

This paper introduces a novel approach to detect and address faulty or corrupted external sensors in the context of inertial navigation by leveraging a switching Kalman Filter combined with parameter augmentation. Instead of discarding the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Artem Mustaev , Nicholas Galioto , Matt Boler , John D. Jakeman , Cosmin Safta , Alex Gorodetsky

In this work, we propose a novel method for performing inertial aided navigation, by using deep neural networks (DNNs). To date, most DNN inertial navigation methods focus on the task of inertial odometry, by taking gyroscope and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Ming Zhang , Mingming Zhang , Yiming Chen , Mingyang Li

The inertial navigation system (INS) has been widely used to provide self-contained and continuous motion estimation in intelligent transportation systems. Recently, the emergence of chip-level inertial sensors has expanded the relevant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 You Li , Ruizhi Chen , Xiaoji Niu , Yuan Zhuang , Zhouzheng Gao , Xin Hu , Naser El-Sheimy

A maximum likelihood estimator for fusing the measurements in an inertial sensor array is presented. The maximum likelihood estimator is concentrated and an iterative solution method is presented for the resulting low-dimensional…

Applications · Statistics 2016-08-24 Isaac Skog , John-Olof Nilsson , Peter Händel , Arye Nehorai

This paper investigates the problem of inertial navigation system (INS) filter design through the lens of symmetry. The extended Kalman filter (EKF) and its variants have been the staple of INS filtering for 50 years. However, recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Alessandro Fornasier , Yixiao Ge , Pieter van Goor , Robert Mahony , Stephan Weiss

Atom interferometery is an exquisite measurement technique sensitive to inertial forces. However, it is commonly limited to a single sensitive axis, allowing high-precision multi-dimensional sensing only through subsequent or post-corrected…

Navigation plays a vital role in the ability of autonomous surface and underwater platforms to complete their tasks. Most navigation systems apply a fusion between inertial sensors and other external sensors, such as global navigation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Yaakov Libero , Itzik Klein

This paper proposes a novel data-driven approach for inertial navigation, which learns to estimate trajectories of natural human motions just from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) in every smartphone. The key observation is that human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Hang Yan , Qi Shan , Yasutaka Furukawa

Many smartphone applications use inertial measurement units (IMUs) to sense movement, but the use of these sensors for pedestrian localization can be challenging due to their noise characteristics. Recent data-driven inertial odometry…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Scott Sun , Dennis Melamed , Kris Kitani

Inertial navigation systems for pedestrians are infrastructure-less and can achieve sub-meter accuracy in the short/medium period. However, when low-cost inertial measurement units (IMU) are employed for their implementation, they suffer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Francesco Montorsi , Fabrizio Pancaldi , Giorgio M. Vitetta

Accurate measurement of inertial quantities is essential in geophysics, geodesy, fundamental physics and navigation. For instance, inertial navigation systems require stable inertial sensors to compute the position and attitude of the…

An Inertial Navigation System (INS) is a system that integrates acceleration and angular velocity readings from an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), along with other sensors such as Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) position, GNSS…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Pieter van Goor , Tarek Hamel , Robert Mahony

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

The defects of the traditional strapdown inertial navigation algorithms become well acknowledged and the corresponding enhanced algorithms have been quite recently proposed trying to mitigate both theoretical and algorithmic defects. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Hongyan Jiang , Maoran Zhu , Yuanxin Wu

This tutorial presents a control-oriented introduction to aided inertial navigation systems using a Lie-group formulation centered on the extended Special Euclidean group SE_2(3). The focus is on developing a clear and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Soulaimane Berkane

This paper proposes an $SE_2(3)$ based extended Kalman filtering (EKF) framework for the inertial-integrated state estimation problem. The error representation using the straight difference of two vectors in the inertial navigation system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Yarong Luo , Chi Guo , Shengyong You , Jianlang Hu , Jingnan Liu

The performance of inertial navigation systems is largely dependent on the stable flow of external measurements and information to guarantee continuous filter updates and bind the inertial solution drift. Platforms in different operational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Daniel Engelsman , Itzik Klein