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Accurate velocity estimation is critical in mobile robotics, particularly for driver assistance systems and autonomous driving. Wheel odometry fused with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data is a widely used method for velocity estimation;…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Liam Boyle , Jonas Kühne , Nicolas Baumann , Niklas Bastuck , Michele Magno

Motivated by drone autonomous navigation applications we address a novel problem of velocity-aided attitude estimation by combining two linear velocity components measured in a body-fixed frame and a linear velocity component measured in an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-22 Minh-Duc Hua , Tarek Hamel , Claude Samson

In various applications in the field of control engineering the estimation of the state variables of dynamic systems in the presence of unknown inputs plays an important role. Existing methods require the so-called observer matching…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-08 Helmut Niederwieser , Markus Tranninger , Richard Seeber , Markus Reichhartinger

Precise, seamless, and efficient train localization as well as long-term railway environment monitoring is the essential property towards reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety (RAMS) engineering for railroad systems.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Yusheng Wang , Weiwei Song , Yi Zhang , Fei Huang , Zhiyong Tu , Ruoying Li , Shimin Zhang , Yidong Lou

A time-invariant, linear, distributed observer is described for estimating the state of an $m>0$ channel, $n$-dimensional continuous-time linear system of the form $ \dot{x} = Ax,\ y_i = C_i x,\ i \in \{1,2,\cdots, m\}$. The state $x$ is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-03-16 L. Wang , A. S. Morse

Various methods are nowadays available to design observers for broad classes of systems. Nevertheless, the question of the tuning of the observer to achieve satisfactory estimation performance remains largely open. This paper presents a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 E. Petri , R. Postoyan , D. Astolfi , D. Nešić , V. Andrieu

The design of navigation observers able to simultaneously estimate the position, linear velocity and orientation of a vehicle in a three-dimensional space is crucial in many robotics and aerospace applications. This problem was mainly dealt…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-21 Miaomiao Wang , Abdelhamid Tayebi

This paper studies nonlinear observer design for rigid-body extended pose estimation using inertial measurements and generic exteroceptive sensing. The estimation problem is formulated as a cascade architecture that separates translational…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Sifeddine Benahmed , Tarek Hamel , Soulaimane Berkane

Sufficient conditions for the design of a simple class of interval observers for linear impulsive systems subject to minimum and range dwell-time constraints are obtained and formulated in terms of infinite-dimensional linear programs. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Corentin Briat , Mustafa Khammash

This paper introduces the united monocular-stereo features into a visual-inertial tightly coupled odometry (UMS-VINS) for robust pose estimation. UMS-VINS requires two cameras and a low-cost inertial measurement unit (IMU). The UMS-VINS is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Chaoyang Jiang , Xiaoni Zheng , Zhe Jin , Chengpu Yu

A simply structured distributed observer is described for estimating the state of a discrete-time, jointly observable, input-free, linear system whose sensed outputs are distributed across a time-varying network. It is explained how to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Lili Wang , Ji Liu , A. Stephen Morse , Brian D. O. Anderson

Nonlinear observer design for systems whose state space evolves on Lie groups is considered. The proposed method is similar to previously developed nonlinear observers in that it involves propagating the state estimate using a process model…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-10 David Evan Zlotnik , James Richard Forbes

Drift-free localization is essential for autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we address the problem by proposing a filter-based framework, which integrates the visual-inertial odometry and the measurements of the features in the pre-built…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Zhuqing Zhang , Yanmei Jiao , Shoudong Huang , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

We propose Super Odometry, a high-precision multi-modal sensor fusion framework, providing a simple but effective way to fuse multiple sensors such as LiDAR, camera, and IMU sensors and achieve robust state estimation in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Shibo Zhao , Hengrui Zhang , Peng Wang , Lucas Nogueira , Sebastian Scherer

We address the problem of state estimation and attack isolation for general discrete-time nonlinear systems when sensors are corrupted by (potentially unbounded) attack signals. For a large class of nonlinear plants and observers, we…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Tianci Yang , Carlos Murguia , Margreta Kuijper , Dragan Nesic

In this paper we consider the joint problems of state estimation and model identification for a class of continuous-time nonlinear systems in output-feedback canonical form. An adaptive observer is proposed that combines an extended…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Michelangelo Bin , Lorenzo Marconi

This article describes two independent developments aimed at improving the Particle Tracking Method for measurements of flow or particle velocities. First, a stereoscopic multicamera calibration method that does not require any optical…

In this paper the explicit necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of reduced order proportional-integral observer for the state estimation of continuous-time linear time-invariant systems are established. A procedure is given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Konstadinos H. Kiritsis

Recent advances in the fields of robotics and automation have spurred significant interest in robust state estimation. To enable robust state estimation, several methodologies have been proposed. One such technique, which has shown…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Ryan M. Watson , Jason N. Gross , Clark N. Taylor , Robert C. Leishman

This paper addresses the synthesis of interval observers for partially unknown nonlinear systems subject to bounded noise, aiming to simultaneously estimate system states and learn a model of the unknown dynamics. Our approach leverages…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Mohammad Khajenejad , Zeyuan Jin