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A novel relative localization approach for guidance of a micro-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) by a well-equipped aerial robot fusing Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) with Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is proposed in this paper.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Václav Pritzl , Matouš Vrba , Petr Štěpán , Martin Saska

In this paper, we propose a probabilistic continuous-time visual-inertial odometry (VIO) for rolling shutter cameras. The continuous-time trajectory formulation naturally facilitates the fusion of asynchronized high-frequency IMU data and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Xiaolei Lang , Jiajun Lv , Jianxin Huang , Yukai Ma , Yong Liu , Xingxing Zuo

In recent years, Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) has achieved many significant progresses. However, VIO methods suffer from localization drift over long trajectories. In this paper, we propose a First-Estimates Jacobian…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Shenhan Jia , Yanmei Jiao , Zhuqing Zhang , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

In this paper, WALK-VIO, a novel visual-inertial odometry (VIO) with walking-motion-adaptive leg kinematic constraints that change with body motion for localization of quadruped robots, is proposed. Quadruped robots primarily use VIO…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Hyunjun Lim , Byeongho Yu , Yeeun Kim , Joowoong Byun , Soonpyo Kwon , Haewon Park , Hyun Myung

Robust stereo visual-inertial odometry (VIO) remains challenging in low-texture scenes and under abrupt illumination changes, where point features become sparse and unstable, leading to ambiguous association and under-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Zikun Chen , Wentao Zhao , Yihe Niu , Tianchen Deng , Jingchuan Wang

We propose a continuous-time spline-based formulation for visual-inertial odometry (VIO). Specifically, we model the poses as a cubic spline, whose temporal derivatives are used to synthesize linear acceleration and angular velocity, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Jiawei Mo , Junaed Sattar

Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (IEKF) has been successfully applied in Visual-inertial Odometry (VIO) as an advanced achievement of Kalman filter, showing great potential in sensor fusion. In this paper, we propose partial IEKF (PIEKF),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Tong Hua , Tao Li , Ling Pei

It is typically challenging for visual or visual-inertial odometry systems to handle the problems of dynamic scenes and pure rotation. In this work, we design a novel visual-inertial odometry (VIO) system called RD-VIO to handle both of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Jinyu Li , Xiaokun Pan , Gan Huang , Ziyang Zhang , Nan Wang , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

This letter presents an accurate and robust Lidar Inertial Odometry framework. We fuse LiDAR scans with IMU data using a tightly-coupled iterative error state Kalman filter for robust and fast localization. To achieve robust correspondence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Xingyu Ji , Shenghai Yuan , Pengyu Yin , Lihua Xie

A fundamental challenge in robust visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is to dynamically assess the reliability of sensor measurements. This assessment is crucial for properly weighting the contribution of each measurement to the state estimate.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Seungwon Choi , Donggyu Park , Seo-Yeon Hwang , Tae-Wan Kim

We present HybVIO, a novel hybrid approach for combining filtering-based visual-inertial odometry (VIO) with optimization-based SLAM. The core of our method is highly robust, independent VIO with improved IMU bias modeling, outlier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Otto Seiskari , Pekka Rantalankila , Juho Kannala , Jerry Ylilammi , Esa Rahtu , Arno Solin

A common prerequisite for evaluating a visual(-inertial) odometry (VO/VIO) algorithm is to align the timestamps and the reference frame of its estimated trajectory with a reference ground-truth derived from a system of superior precision,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Zichao Shu , Lijun Li , Rui Wang , Zetao Chen

xVIO is a range-visual-inertial odometry algorithm implemented at JPL. It has been demonstrated with closed-loop controls on-board unmanned rotorcraft equipped with off-the-shelf embedded computers and sensors. It can operate at daytime…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Jeff Delaune , David S. Bayard , Roland Brockers

Accurate, infrastructure-less sensor systems for motion tracking are essential for mobile robotics and augmented reality (AR) applications. The most popular state-of-the-art visual-inertial odometry (VIO) systems, however, are too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jonas Kühne , Christian Vogt , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) is the task of estimating the movement trajectory of an agent from an onboard camera stream fused with additional Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) measurements. A crucial subtask within VIO is the tracking of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Jonas Kühne , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Visual odometry is a fundamental task for many applications on mobile devices and robotic platforms. Since such applications are oftentimes not limited to predefined target domains and learning-based vision systems are known to generalize…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Niclas Vödisch , Daniele Cattaneo , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

In this paper we present an on-manifold sequence-to-sequence learning approach to motion estimation using visual and inertial sensors. It is to the best of our knowledge the first end-to-end trainable method for visual-inertial odometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Ronald Clark , Sen Wang , Hongkai Wen , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

Autonomous navigation for legged robots in complex and dynamic environments relies on robust simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems to accurately map surroundings and localize the robot, ensuring safe and efficient operation.…

Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) algorithms estimate the accurate camera trajectory by using camera and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors. The applications of VIO span a diverse range, including augmented reality and indoor navigation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Ali Samadzadeh , Mohammad Hassan Mojab , Heydar Soudani , Seyed Hesamoddin Mireshghollah , Ahmad Nickabadi

Due to the advantages of high computational efficiency and small memory requirements, filter-based visual inertial odometry (VIO) has a good application prospect in miniaturized and payload-constrained embedded systems. However, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Xueyu Du , Lilian Zhang , Chengjun Ji , Xinchan Luo , Huaiyi Zhang , Maosong Wang , Wenqi Wu , Jun Mao