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Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are sophisticated robotic platforms crucial for a wide range of applications. The accuracy of AUV navigation systems is critical to their success. Inertial sensors and Doppler velocity logs (DVL) fusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Guy Damari , Itzik Klein

We present a real-time monocular thermal-inertial odometry system designed for high-velocity, GPS-denied flight on embedded hardware. The system fuses measurements from a FLIR Boson+ 640 longwave infrared camera, a high-rate IMU, a laser…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Austin Stone , Mark Petersen , Cammy Peterson

Building upon the theory of Kalman Filtering on Lie Groups, this paper describes an Extended Kalman Filter and Smoother for Loosely Coupled Integration of GNSS/INS tailored for post-processing applications. The approach employs a dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Marcos R. Fernandes , Giorgio M. Magalhães , Yusef Cáceres , João B. R. do Val

The essential of navigation, perception, and decision-making which are basic tasks for intelligent robots, is to estimate necessary system states. Among them, navigation is fundamental for other upper applications, providing precise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Feng Zhu , Zhuo Xu , Xveqing Zhang , Yuantai Zhang , Weijie Chen , Xiaohong Zhang

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

Navigation and trajectorial estimation of maritime vessels are contingent upon the context of positional accuracy. Even the smallest deviations in the estimation of a given vessel may result in detrimental consequences in terms of economic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Atilla Alpay Nalcaci , Fidan Mehmeti , Wolfgang Kellerer , Florian Schiegg

This paper considers the problem of visual-inertial sensor fusion in the cooperative case and it provides new theoretical contributions, which regard its observability and its resolvability in closed form. The case of two agents is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Agostino Martinelli

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…

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

Inertial odometry (IO) using strap-down inertial measurement units (IMUs) is critical in many robotic applications where precise orientation and position tracking are essential. Prior kinematic motion model-based IO methods often use a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Yuheng Qiu , Chen Wang , Can Xu , Yutian Chen , Xunfei Zhou , Youjie Xia , Sebastian Scherer

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) aided Inertial Navigation System (INS) is a fundamental approach for attaining continuously available absolute vehicle position and full state estimates at high bandwidth. For transportation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Wang Hu , Yingjie Hu , Mike Stas , Jay A. Farrell

Successful navigation of a rigid-body traveling with six degrees of freedom (6 DoF) requires accurate estimation of attitude , position, and linear velocity. The true navigation dynamics are highly nonlinear and are modeled on the matrix…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-30 Hashim A Hashim

Nowadays, smartphones are not utilized for communications only. Smartphones are equipped with a lot of sensors that can be utilized for different purposes. For example, inertial sensors have been used extensively in recent years for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Juraj Machaj , Peter Brida , Ondrej Krejcar , Milica Petkovic , Quingjiang Shi

In this work we solve the position-aided 3D navigation problem using a nonlinear estimation scheme. More precisely, we propose a nonlinear observer to estimate the full state of the vehicle (position, velocity, orientation and gyro bias)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Soulaimane Berkane , Abdelhamid Tayebi

Strapdown inertial navigation research involves the parameterization and computation of the attitude, velocity and position of a rigid body in a chosen reference frame. The community has long devoted to finding the most concise and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Wei Ouyang , Yuanxin Wu

We present a system for the boresighting of sensors using inertial measurement devices as the basis for developing a range of dynamic real-time sensor fusion applications. The proof of concept utilizes a COTS FPGA platform for sensor fusion…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Steve Chappell , Alistair Macarthur , Dan Preston , Dave Olmstead , Bob Flint , Chris Sullivan

A current-aided inertial navigation framework is proposed for small autonomous underwater vehicles in long-duration operations (> 1 hour), where neither frequent surfacing nor consistent bottom-tracking are available. We instantiate this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Zhuoyuan Song , Kamran Mohseni

Autonomous mobile robots operating in novel environments depend critically on accurate state estimation, often utilizing visual and inertial measurements. Recent work has shown that an invariant formulation of the extended Kalman filter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Abdullah Altawaitan , Jason Stanley , Sambaran Ghosal , Thai Duong , Nikolay Atanasov

We consider the problem of direction finding using partly calibrated arrays, a distributed subarray with position errors between subarrays. The key challenge is to enhance angular resolution in the presence of position errors. To achieve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-12 Guangbin Zhang , Tianyao Huang , Yimin Liu , Xiqin Wang , Yonina C. Eldar

Accurate post-processing navigation is essential for applications such as survey and mapping, where the full measurement history can be exploited to refine past state estimates. Fixed-interval smoothing algorithms represent the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Nadav Cohen , Itzik Klein