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The correct ego-motion estimation basically relies on the understanding of correspondences between adjacent LiDAR scans. However, given the complex scenarios and the low-resolution LiDAR, finding reliable structures for identifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yan Xu , Junyi Lin , Jianping Shi , Guofeng Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

In this work, we present Voxel-SLAM: a complete, accurate, and versatile LiDAR-inertial SLAM system that fully utilizes short-term, mid-term, long-term, and multi-map data associations to achieve real-time estimation and high precision…

Inertial measurement unit (IMU) and odometer have been commonly-used sensors for autonomous land navigation in the global positioning system (GPS)-denied scenarios. This paper systematically proposes a versatile strategy for self-contained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Yuanxin Wu

Odometry in adverse weather conditions, such as fog, rain, and snow, presents significant challenges, as traditional vision and LiDAR-based methods often suffer from degraded performance. Radar-Inertial Odometry (RIO) has emerged as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shuocheng Yang , Yueming Cao , Shengbo Eben Li , Jianqiang Wang , Shaobing Xu

State-of-the-art forward facing monocular visual-inertial odometry algorithms are often brittle in practice, especially whilst dealing with initialisation and motion in directions that render the state unobservable. In such cases having a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Bo Fu , Kumar Shaurya Shankar , Nathan Michael

Most sensor setups for onboard autonomous perception are composed of LiDARs and vision systems, as they provide complementary information that improves the reliability of the different algorithms necessary to obtain a robust scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jorge Beltrán , Carlos Guindel , Arturo de la Escalera , Fernando García

State estimation is a crucial component for the successful implementation of robotic systems, relying on sensors such as cameras, LiDAR, and IMUs. However, in real-world scenarios, the performance of these sensors is degraded by challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Jui-Te Huang , Ruoyang Xu , Akshay Hinduja , Michael Kaess

Higher level functionality in autonomous driving depends strongly on a precise motion estimate of the vehicle. Powerful algorithms have been developed. However, their great majority focuses on either binocular imagery or pure LIDAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Johannes Graeter , Alexander Wilczynski , Martin Lauer

In this letter, we present tightly coupled LiDAR-IMU-leg odometry, which is robust to challenging conditions such as featureless environments and deformable terrains. We developed an online learning-based leg kinematics model named the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Taku Okawara , Kenji Koide , Aoki Takanose , Shuji Oishi , Masashi Yokozuka , Kentaro Uno , Kazuya Yoshida

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

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

Lidar-Monocular Visual Odometry (LIMO), a odometry estimation algorithm, combines camera and LIght Detection And Ranging sensor (LIDAR) for visual localization by tracking camera features as well as features from LIDAR measurements, and it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Adarsh Sehgal , Ashutosh Singandhupe , Hung Manh La , Alireza Tavakkoli , Sushil J. Louis

Multiple LiDARs have progressively emerged on autonomous vehicles for rendering a wide field of view and dense measurements. However, the lack of precise calibration negatively affects their potential applications in localization and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Jianhao Jiao , Yang Yu , Qinghai Liao , Haoyang Ye , Ming Liu

We propose an accurate and robust initialization approach for stereo visual-inertial SLAM systems. Unlike the current state-of-the-art method, which heavily relies on the accuracy of a pure visual SLAM system to estimate inertial variables…

With robots being deployed in increasingly complex environments like underground mines and planetary surfaces, the multi-sensor fusion method has gained more and more attention which is a promising solution to state estimation in the such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Fuzhang Han , Han Zheng , Wenjun Huang , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang , Yanmei Jiao

We present RailLoMer in this article, to achieve real-time accurate and robust odometry and mapping for rail vehicles. RailLoMer receives measurements from two LiDARs, an IMU, train odometer, and a global navigation satellite system (GNSS)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Yusheng Wang , Yidong Lou , Yi Zhang , Weiwei Song , Fei Huang , Zhiyong Tu , Shimin Zhang

Enhancing visual odometry by exploiting sparse depth measurements from LiDAR is a promising solution for improving tracking accuracy of an odometry. Most existing works utilize a monocular pinhole camera, yet could suffer from poor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Qirui Hu , Zikang Yuan , Tianle Xu , Xiaoxiang Wang , Jinni Geng , Xin Yang

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) on a moving agent could suffer from motion distortion due to simultaneous rotation of the LiDAR and fast movement of the agent. An accurate piecewise linear de skewing algorithm is proposed to correct the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-29 John Henawy , Zhengguo Li , Wei Yun Yau , Gerald Seet , Kong Wah Wan

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a fundamental task to mobile and aerial robotics. LiDAR based systems have proven to be superior compared to vision based systems due to its accuracy and robustness. In spite of its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Weizhao Shao , Srinivasan Vijayarangan , Cong Li , George Kantor

In recent years there have been excellent results in Visual-Inertial Odometry techniques, which aim to compute the incremental motion of the sensor with high accuracy and robustness. However these approaches lack the capability to close…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Raul Mur-Artal , Juan D. Tardos